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MILLIE LIES LOW – Review by Justina Walford (Guest Post)

June 19, 2023June 25, 2023 Guest Post Ana Scotney, guest posts, justina walford, Michelle Savill, Millie Lies Low, new zealand films

Millie Lies Low goes headlong into the mistakes people make. Millie is on her way to New York for a prestigious internship, but she has a panic attack and gets stuck in her hometown. Instead of telling her friends and family that she missed her flight and can’t afford another one, she decides to fake her trip to New York on social media. Her life devolves from there, with each secretive misstep leading to worse and worse consequences. Big mistakes leading to bigger mistakes.

Festivals Reviews

MILLIE LIES LOW (MIFF 2022) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

August 16, 2022August 17, 2022 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Ana Scotney, melbourne international film festival, Michelle Savill, MIFF 2022, Millie Lies Low

Inspired by first-time feature filmmaker Michelle Savill herself having missed an important, career-making international flight to France where she fleetingly wondered if she could just fake it until she made it, Millie Lies Low is a low-key exercise in embarrassment humor as we follow it’s protagonist from one cringe-inducing encounter to another. An enjoyable although not necessarily deeply probing film, Millie Lies Low is a charming but perhaps not exactly memorable way to kill an hour and a half or so.