The Party's Just Begining (directed by/starring Karen Gillan)

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6219314/

Saw this film on Monday as part of its U.S. premiere. Gillian shows some growing pains as a first time feature director, with some pacing and story issues, as well as weird aspect ratio switches (often it goes from scope to flat in flashback scenes, except it isn't consistent at all and a number of flashbacks remain in scope seemingly for no reason), but also real ambition. And as an actress, she completely shines here with a deeper performance than I've seen from here before.

Not a perfect movie, and definitely will be too heavy for some people, but an interesting debut.