Neon revealed the official trailer for Eileen, the psychological thriller film starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway as two women working at a juvenile detention facility, when their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when one of them reveals a dark secret. The film is based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Ottessa Moshfegh.
Also starring in the film are Shea Whigham, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Owen Teague.
Release Date
Directed by William Oldroyd, Eileen premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters in NY and LA on December 1st, then everywhere on December 8th.
Synopsis
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Reviews
The Guardian review gave the “off-kilter thriller” 2 of 5 stars, writing “There’s a fantastically well-measured performance from Anne Hathaway in the strange, if not quite strange enough, thriller Eileen, an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Booker prize-shortlisted novel. She’s an actor who doesn’t always find her sweet spot, admirably trying to show extensive range for a star of her high wattage, yet often not proving to be the right match for her material, big swings frustratingly filed away as big misses.”
Variety review described the film as a “Wildly Audacious, Wondrously Twisted Period Psychodrama” writing, “Although adapted from the novel by the author herself along with co-writer Luke Goebel (they previously collaborated on the far more straightforward Jennifer Lawrence drama “Causeway”), far from being beholden to its literary roots, “Eileen” is deliriously movie-literate. It moves, sometimes sinuously, sometimes with lurching abruptness, from Sirkian romantic melodrama to film noir into black-comedy horror, coming to rest somewhere in the realms of one of the more effed-up Hitchcock thrillers. (No coincidence that the gorgeously sinister opening credits are a direct pastiche of “Rear Window’s” or that Rebecca’s name and her aloof blonde persona also nod to the Master of Suspense.)”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for Eileen.