Little Bad Letters, the Review | There went the good manners

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley return to star in “Little Bad Letters,” a black comedy from director Thea Sharrock.

In popular conceptions of the past, there is a tendency to idealize yesterday, falling into nostalgic fallacies. This is how conservative fantasies are created where the present is always a degradation of some lost glory. British cinema has done a lot to consolidate these ideas, with period films being such a widely used model that they are practically a parallel industry. But, every now and then, a filmmaker comes along willing to subvert the standards and explore how the rot that is recognized today is nothing new. In fact, the situation was much worse in past decades, whether we want to believe it or remain ignorant.

For her third feature film, Thea Sharrock staged a wicked script written by Jonny Sweet. The text was based on true events, ...
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