Magpie movie storyline. When Ben and Anette’s daughter is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star, Alicia, Ben is quickly drawn into Alicia’s world. As he becomes more intoxicated with Alicia and their affair intensifies, Anette is left at home with the baby, pushed to her emotional limits and psychologically on the brink.
Magpie is a 2024 British neo-noir film directed by Sam Yates, starring Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Cherrelle Skeete and Jenny Galloway. Magpie had its world premiere on March 9, 2024 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. In May 2024, Signature Entertainment acquired the distribution rights.
Film Review for Magpie
How distraught is Annette, the severely troubled British mother of two played by Daisy Ridley in “Magpie?” She has gotten a short angular haircut, one that might, in another context, be the height of chic (very Isabella Rossellini). Except that the movie uses it as a symbolic expression of her trauma, like Mia Farrow’s iconic Vidal Sassoon cut in “Rosemary’s Baby.” Annette, who’s on some serious medication, looks at a mirror until it breaks.
Does she have telekinetic powers? No, she broke it with her hand (which bleeds into the sink), but the force of her repressed rage is palpable. Ben (Shazad Latif), her British Indian husband, is a noted author, and every comment she makes about his work is a sly dig. She speaks in brief, clipped “civilized” phrases. At one point a bird crashes into the window of her home. The whole atmosphere of the film is suffused with her cold anger.
Directed by: Sam Yates
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Cherrelle Skeete, Jenny Galloway
Screenplay by: Tom Bateman
Production Design by: Amanda McArthur
Cinematography by: Laura Bellingham
Film Editing by: Christopher Watson
Costume Design by: Natalie Roar
Set Decoration by: Celia De La Hey
Art Direction by: Andrea Stern
Music by: Isobel Waller-Bridge
MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexuality.
Distributed by: Signature Entertainment
Release Date: March 9, 2024 (SXSW)
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