“Unfortunately, audiences like women to be nice in their movies. They don’t want to see them get messy and ugly and dark and drunk and taking pills.”
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Joe Wright had, let’s say, an interesting 2021. He released two films last year. The biggest and most important one (and still in wide release) is his marvelous musical Cyrano (which had an Academy-qualifying December run in Los Angeles, even though its wider release was pushed back to February due to the pandemic). That one stars an electrifying Peter Dinklage in the title role, and it’s a testament to Wright’s dedication to feverish onscreen romanticism. But earlier in 2021, Wright also released The Woman in the Window, his…
