probably just use such an opportunity
to feel her up.
Ronan Blaney’s script and Pastoll’s
direction combine for an impressively
efficient piece of classical
storytelling. Everything is laid
out neatly for the viewer to follow
without ever forcing us to listen
to any expository speeches, and
what initially seem like throwaway
details serve to lay the groundwork
for important later moments.
Take the blackly comic vignette
that sees a horny Sarah use a
kitchen knife to prise open one of
her kids’ toys to steal its batteries
for her vibrator. It’s an amusing bit
of light relief, but it crucially serves
to prevent us asking why Sarah
has a kitchen knife to hand in a
pivotal moment later on. Hitchcock
would be proud of this type
of storytelling, and there’s a nod
to Dial M for Murder in the scene
in question.
What holds A Good Woman Is
Hard to Find back from being
a wholly satisfying piece of low
budget genre filmmaking is the
presence of Hogg as stereotypi-
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