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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 actress, seeks healing from the traumas of her life. She embarks on a spiritual retreat, only for it to become anything but healing: she’s easily annoyed by the other attendees and wants attention from the retreat’s new-age guru Elon Bello (Ben Whishaw). Even worse, she has become destructively ob...

Directed By: Alice Englert

Written By: Alice Englert

  • 2024
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2024
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 49 m

Bad Behaviour

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
57
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Summary Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actress, seeks healing from the traumas of her life. She embarks on a spiritual retreat, only for it to become anything but healing: she’s easily annoyed by the other attendees and wants attention from the retreat’s new-age guru Elon Bello (Ben Whishaw). Even worse, she has become destructively ob...

Directed By: Alice Englert

Written By: Alice Englert

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
57
46% Positive
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
15% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
57
46% Positive
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews

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83
Jan 24, 2023
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.
By Jason Bailey FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 27, 2023
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.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 24, 2023
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..
By Amber Wilkinson FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 29, 2023
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.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 25, 2023
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.
By Michael Frank FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 26, 2023
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.
By Martin Carr FULL REVIEW
20
Feb 3, 2023
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.
By Patrice Witherspoon FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Ask Me About My Films, Badly Behaved Babes, Bee-Hive Productions, CAA Media Finance, Fulcrum Media Finance, New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand Screen Production Grant, Sandy Lane Productions
Release Date Jun 14, 2024
Duration 1 h 49 m
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Awards

ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sydney Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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