Thriller · Drama · Crime
American
2000 · Directed by Mary Harron · 102 min
In late-1980s Manhattan, a young investment banker lives for status: the right restaurant, the right business card, the right moisturiser. Behind his polished surface sits something much colder. A dark satire of ambition and appearance, told with a deadpan, elegant eye.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of turn-of-the-millennium American satire, and a key example of the horror-comedy of manners, in which genre violence is used to criticise a social class rather than simply to shock.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a comedy of manners first, where what people say, wear and play on the stereo is the real content.
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