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Promising Young Woman and How To Build A Girl

How To Build A Girl (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Coky Giedroyc; Writer: Caitlin Moran, based on her own novel; Stars: Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Donal Finn)

A bored schoolgirl reinvents herself as a professional music critic.

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Promising Young Woman (Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Emerald Fennell; Writer: Emerald Fennell; Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Molly Shannon, Angela Zhou, Sam Richardson, Steve Monroe, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Connie Britton, Alfred Molina, Max Greenfield)

Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman... until something abruptly derailed her future. Nothing in Cassie’s life is as it appears: she’s smart, cunning, and living a double life by night. Now, Cassie has a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling take on revenge.

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Proxima (Country: France, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour; Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant-Lemesle, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Hüller)

A female astronaut finds the demands of work take their toll on her single-mum relationship with her young daughter.

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