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Promising Young Woman is a 2020 film written, directed, and co-produced by Emerald Fennell in her feature directorial debut. It stars Carey Mulligan as a young woman haunted by a traumatic past as she navigates balancing forgiveness and vengeance, with Bo Burnham , Alison Brie , Clancy Brown , Chris Lowell , Jennifer Coolidge , Laverne Cox ...
- Emerald Fennell
Emerald Lilly Fennell (/ f ɪ ˈ n ɛ l /; [1] born 1 October...
- Chris Lowell
Christopher Lowell (born October 17, 1984) is an American...
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse (/ m ɪ n t s ˈ p l ɔː s /;...
- Max Greenfield
Greenfield began pursuing an acting career in 1998 after he...
- Promising Young Woman (soundtrack)
Promising Young Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)...
- Emerald Fennell
Promising Young Woman is a 2020 American black comedy tragedy thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Emerald Fennell in her feature directorial debut, featuring Carey Mulligan in the lead role, alongside Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton in supporting roles.
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Background
Fennell explained that, she grew up listening to the soundtracks of Romeo + Juliet, Clueless, Can't Hardly Wait and Empire Records, during her childhood, which led her through a wide range of emotions, including love, heartbreak, humiliation, etc. For her directorial debut, which is a thriller, she decided to have several pop songs in the soundtrack, and insisted Susan Jacobs, to supervise the soundtrack. Fennell, who was the executive soundtrack producer, had jointly compiled the album with...
Development
Two of the original songs were written by Cyn, who said in an interview to Variety, "Being able to see the whole movie and the scene with the music muted can be such a gift if you know what you want to do with the music. It's like coloring in the lines of a coloring book. Just like with 'Drinks,' the songs couldn't have come to life as quickly as they did without seeing the movie. And if you listen to 'Uh Oh,' the whole movie is in the second verse." Willis, apart from composing the score, ha...
Singles
Cyn's original track "Drinks" was released as a promotional music video single on March 6, 2020, through YouTube. It was first released from the album as a single, in anticipation with the April 2020 release date. Speaking about the track Cyn opined that the song "and the movie complement one another thematically. For example, both pieces reveal moments of friendship, allegiance, hardship, strength, and of course, pose scenarios where drinks are acquired [...] Upon watching the movie, Promisi...
Vinyl release
Two vinyl editions of the soundtracks (double-disc sets) were released by Capitol. The first editions, a red-and-pink colored splatter, featuring the original cover artwork and red-and-pink disc sets was released on February 19, 2021.A multi-colored splatter edition, featured the initially released cover artwork and a multi-colored disc, was released on March 19.
Critical reception
Kate Mcland of IndieWire stated, "The film is filled with inspired soundtrack choices – a strings-heavy take on Britney Spears' 'Toxic' teases before it reveals itself at the perfect moment, and an amusing use of an 'It's Raining Men' cover sells Fennell's pitch-black sense of humor early on." The Independent-based editors said that the "soundtrack's impactful aura exceeds its promise all the way to accomplished" and cited Hilton's single "Stars Are Blind" and Anthony Willis' orchestral inter...
Accolades
The soundtrack was shortlisted at the preliminary nominations for Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, simultaneously with Willis' score at the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category, but could not get selected. The soundtrack fetched an award for Best Soundtrack Album at the 11th Hollywood Music in Media Awards, as well as a nomination in the same category at the St. Louis Film Critics Associationawards in...
Promising Young Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) at AllMusicPlot. Cassie Thomas is a 30-year-old medical school dropout who works in a coffee shop and spends her evenings going to bars and clubs and pretending to be drunk, then confronting anyone if they attempt to take sexual advantage of her intoxication.
Jan 15, 2021 · Cassie, the heroine of Emerald Fennell’s ambitious debut “Promising Young Woman,” has an interesting hobby. Dropping out of med school years ago after an undefined trauma involving her best friend Nina, she works at a coffee shop now, and entraps men at night into revealing that their own perception of their moral code is a form of denial.
Watch Promising Young Woman on NBC.com and the NBC App. An unexpected encounter gives a wickedly smart woman a chance to right past wrongs.
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Dec 18, 2020 · Promising Young Woman. By Richard Brody. December 18, 2020. The thirtysomething Cassie (Carey Mulligan), a medical-school dropout, works as a barista and goes out every night to bars and...
