AUDREY (SXSW2024) – Review by Valerie Kalfrin
Dark comedy walks a fine line between satire and offensiveness. The Australian film Audrey lands on the far end of the scale, which might be too much for some viewers. Ronnie is a TV has-been angling to be great again. Teaching acting to elementary-age students, she also lives vicariously through her seventeen-year-old daughter, Audrey, whom she’s enrolled in voice and drama classes. Audrey is an entitled, spiteful brat who insults everyone in the family, perhaps because she wants her own life.
Read more