DIRECTOR: William Oldroyd
PRODUCERS: Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu, Peter Cron, Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, William Oldroyd
SCREENPLAY: Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, based on Moshfegh's novel
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ari Wegner
EDITOR: Nick Emerson
MUSIC: Richard Reed Perry
WITH: Thomasin McKenzie (Eileen Dunlop), Shea Whigham (Jim Dunlop), Marin Ireland (Anne Polk), Owen Teague (Randy), Anne Hathaway (Rebecca Saint John), Sam Nivola (Lee Polk)


FESTIVALS: Sundance

REVIEW

“A shy prison guard falls for the facility’s glamorous new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd’s intoxicating adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s psychosexual thriller.

Oldroyd’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Lady Macbeth centres once again on a young woman with unruly desires. Eileen’s days pass with listless fantasies of sex and suicide, until Rebecca sets her world alight. As Rebecca, Anne Hathaway’s megawatt charisma is showcased to thrilling effect, while Ari Wegner’s cinematography creates a pungent, pulpy atmosphere that intensifies as the relationship between the women hurtles towards a shocking conclusion.”

– Rowan Woods, London Film Festival 2023

“Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s 2016 first feature, the blisteringly indecorous Victorian tragedy Lady Macbeth, will know not to expect anything ordinary from his long-awaited follow-up. But even with those expectations in mind, what a strange and spellbinding psychological thriller he has woven out of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel, Eileen, which shares with the British director’s debut a contagious fascination with complicated women subject to dark impulses. Rippling with sly humor and a bold command of the tropes of classic Hitchcockian suspense, this is a twisty and beguiling original, led by contrasting but expertly synced performances from Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway.”

​– David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

​Timaru  
Tuesday, 18 February, 6.30pm

Palmerston North  
Wednesday, 30 April, 6.00pm

​​New Plymouth  
Wednesday, 26 March, 6.00pm

​Whanganui   
Monday, 14 July, 7.00pm​

​Hamilton  
Monday, 29 September, 6.30pm

​Auckland  
Monday, 13 October, 6.15pm
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