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Releasing on Jun 14, 2024
- 2024
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 49 m
- 2024
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 49 m
Summary Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Ben Whishaw) while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan (Alice Englert).
Directed By: Alice Englert
Written By: Alice Englert
- 2024
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 49 m
- 2024
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 49 m
Bad Behaviour
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Summary Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Ben Whishaw) while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan (Alice Englert).
Directed By: Alice Englert
Written By: Alice Englert
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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46% Positive
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38% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
57
46% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
It’s genuinely thrilling to watch a filmmaker with a specific voice and oddball style taking genuine risks, and the way she successfully navigates these tonal transitions, how she cuts the cynicism with sincerity and vice versa – well, it’s kind of miracle.
What remains undeniable is Englert’s directorial chops. Bad Behaviour is exactly the story she wanted to tell. She couldn’t care less if you hate it or love it, refusing to pander to anyone’s expectations. Good for her. That sort of bad behavior is what makes her stand out as a filmmaker.
Through it all, Connelly and Englert completely sell their conflicted yearning for one another’s love but because this section is a late arrival, the revelations have to come thick and fast..
The back half is all over the place and doesn’t seem to know what to say – but Connelly never ceases to be anything less than mesmerising as the kind of older woman full of spit, vinegar and shrapnel who could go off at any second.
Englert’s first feature isn’t low on creativity, but visibly lacks cohesion. It’s difficult to connect to, disparate in its own storytelling, mood, and tone. It’s an audacious script and directorial vision, falling short.
Fragmented, incoherent, and disjointed in the worst way, ‘Bad Behavior’ allows Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whitshaw a narrow escape. Writer and director Alice Englert wastes some world class talent, in a story which never really hangs together.
Despite a committed and great performance from Jennifer Connelly, the themes of co-dependency and toxicity within mother/daughter relationships were simply not executed well. It goes without saying, but this is one of the biggest disappointments in recent memory.
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Awards
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sydney Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
