The Woman

Director Lucky McKee's latest macabre fairytale is just as concerned with female psychology as his stunning debut May was, but this time he focuses on familial dysfunction and gender politics to put his audience through the emotional wringer. In short, The Woman tells a story about an all-American family man who comes across and entraps a feral woman living in the woods and decides to civilise her. What follows is a no-holds-barred assault on the viewer’s sensibilities. The film is horrific, dark, demanding and deeply unsettling, but at the same beautifully layered and lingering. The Woman will resonate in your head for days. A work that boldly defies any attempts to slot it into any sort of easy niche, it gives the audience what it needs, rather than what it wants. A film that should be seen. A subversive masterpiece that will stun you into submission.