A review of the new film “Wicked Little Letters”
The English are noted for their eccentricity and there’s a good deal of it on display in this rather odd offering. It’s as if two films were shot and then, in the cutting rooms, the pair were interwoven. One is a ribald comedy with lots of obscene language, while the other is a social drama in which the leading characters are all tragic figures.
In essence, it tells a true story located in the coastal of town Littlehampton in the 1920s (although it was actually shot in nearby Arundel) which makes it a rather interesting curiosity, although there is too much dependency on the language of the letters. But the best reason for watching the film is the casting which includes Olivia Coleman, who is rapidly becoming a national treasure, Jessica Buckley, who is one of my favourite British actresses, and Timothy Spall, who is one of our finest character actors.