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Bad Behaviour

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The film tells the story of Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Ben Whishaw) while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan (Alice Englert).
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Despite impressive work from Jennifer Connelly and Alice Englert, Bad Behaviour is too scattered and disjointed to support its unwieldy ambitions.

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Guy Lodge Variety Dec 28
This is an original and auspicious work from [Alice Englert] -- carrying at least some shared DNA with the ashy black comedy of early films by Englert’s mother Jane Campion. Go to Full Review
Sheila O'Malley RogerEbert.com 06/14/2024
2/4
Englert doesn't wrestle the material into a manageable form, and struggles to find a consistent tone. Go to Full Review
Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 01/04/2024
4/5
The first half is nearly flawless with original character work and laugh-out-loud zingers... Go to Full Review
Abe Friedtanzer Film Factual 07/24/2024
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There is a blueprint of a worthwhile story here with three-dimensional characters, but the finished product is severely lacking. Go to Full Review
Kat Halstead Common Sense Media 07/07/2024
Englert's first feature film as writer/director is intense, surreal, and chaotic at times, but earns its touching moments when they come... The narrative seems to have a life of its own, meandering, flipping on its head, and delving into darkness. Go to Full Review
Russ Simmons KKFI-FM (Kansas City) 06/21/2024
2/5
The title of “Bad Behaviour” is a bit too on the nose. Go to Full Review
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Andrei D May 26 Aimless and not always in a good way, struggles to give good actors solid writing See more Drina W Mar 23 This review is for Jennifer Connelly, whose acting saved this film. Can we please get more of her? Cause honestly, girl took a terrible script and some other slightly annoying acting and made this film happen. See more Michael J Jan 29 Fancy pants—let me be comedic by poking fun at ‘enlightenment’ (which looks like it’s going to work at first) but falls on its boring face…. Hard! Watched in on a plane. Would not have endured it at home… so boring. 🥱 See more Jeffrey P 12/15/2024 Incoherent, uninteresting, and pointless. Imagine being a fly-on-the-wall at a retreat where nothing much happens other than retreat-like stuff until someone gets assaulted with a chair. That’s the half of it. The other half of it deals with some inferred mother/daughter drama with a couple other characters thrown in the middle of it. See more Ceci A 10/26/2024 I am actually upset to see all these negative reviews of this film. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was refreshing in its manner of story-telling, with non-linear elements that were not overwhelming to the overall delivery. The comments of it not coming together make me wonder if we watched the same movie. It most definitely comes together. Aside from its structural ingenuity, the film has a perfect touch of absurdity mixed with sincere, heavy emotions and existential dilemmas. I loved the movement (literally her bodily motion) of the daughter throughout the film. I really hope this film gets the love it deserves; I think it will probably have a cult following with time. I really look forward to seeing more from this director. See more 10/13/2024 Connelly gives an engaging performance, but it's very difficult to like a movie with no heroes . All the characters are unlikable, and Lucy ( Connelly) is a poster child of self absorbed psychopathic narcissism. Everyone else supports her in a delirious codependency that becomes exhausting to watch. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The film tells the story of Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Ben Whishaw) while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan (Alice Englert).
Director
Alice Englert
Producer
Desray Armstrong, Molly Hallam
Screenwriter
Alice Englert
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
New Zealand Screen Production Grant, CAA Media Finance, Ask Me About My Films, Fulcrum Media Finance, Badly Behaved Babes, New Zealand Film Commission, Bee-Hive Productions, Sandy Lane Productions
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 14, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 14, 2024
Runtime
1h 47m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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