Wicked Little Letters

A sleepy seaside village in 1920s Sussex is rocked by a plague of elaborately profane poison pen letters in Thea Sharrock’s delightfully foul-mouthed comedy, which gives free reign to the considerable comedic talents of Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley to uproarious effect. Edith Swan (Colman), a spinster living with her dictatorial father, Edward (Timothy Spall), is next door neighbour to Rose Gooding, (Buckley), a rambunctious Irish immigrant; relations between the pair are frosty at best, and when Edith starts receiving truly foul anonymous letters, accusing the god-fearing woman of all manner of unspeakable degradations, the finger of guilt would appear to point squarely at Rose. The letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as police officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) begins to investigate, she suspect that all may not be as it appears.”