''She Will'' is a 2021 British

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film co-written and directed by Charlotte Colbert, in her feature directorial debut. The film was produced by Jessica Malik and Bob Last, with Dario Argento and Edward R. Pressman among the executive producers. The film stars

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, Kota Eberhardt,

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and

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, with John McCrea,

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, Jonathan Aris and

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. The film had its world premiere on 5 August 2021 at the

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, where it won the

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for Best First Film. It was released in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2022 by Vertigo Releasing.

Plot

Veronica Ghent, a former film star, goes to a healing retreat in Scotland with her nurse Desi Hatoum after a double

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. The place where she stays is the site where women were burnt as witches centuries before. Their ashes fill the land and give her the power to exact revenge within her dreams.

Cast

Filming

''She Will'' was shot in

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and

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, Scotland.

Release

''She Will'' won a

for Best First Film at Locarno Film Festival, while producer Jessica Malik was nominated for Breakthrough Producer at the

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following the film's UK premiere in official selection at the BFI London Film Festival.

Reception

On the

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, the film has an approval rating of 85% based on 67 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "More unsettling than truly scary, ''She Will'' casts a thoughtful, hypnotic spell made even stronger by its restrained approach and some strong performances."

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, which uses a

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, assigned the film a score of 73 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Jessica Kiang of ''

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'' described the film as "a superb, sly horror-drama debut delivering otherworldly feminist vengeance", adding that it "administers a potent dose of #MeToo vengeance, all while wearing its nasty sense of humor like a red-lipstick grin applied to a perfectly masklike face". Fionnuala Halligan of '' Screen Daily'' wrote that "Colbert is nothing if not defiant, and determined. Others have been here before her, but she's found a new way in." Meagan Navarro of '' Bloody Disgusting'' wrote, "Between the haunting score and Colbert's effortless style, ''She Will'' eschews a conventional narrative and instead casts an atmospheric spell through tactile, dreamy visuals." Director Alfonso Cuarón has said that the film "sits in the tradition of great psychological horror films

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leaves one questioning long after tis finished."

References

External links

* * {{AllMovie title, 731922 2020s English-language films 2020s psychological horror films 2021 directorial debut films 2021 drama films 2021 horror films British horror drama films British psychological horror films Films scored by Clint Mansell Films set in Scotland Films shot in Glasgow 2020s British films