THE ASSISTANT

Best female lead for 2020

 It has been a while since I posted a review although I love writing and movies are my universe. But it is the first time I feel obliged to cause I identified myself to the role of the Assistant. 

Whoever worked in both the corporate world and showbiz (and I did both) can not but think that this is the most underrated film and performance.

 The leading actress is raw, expressing all this emotional pain and distress which she swallowes inside her deepest cores, trying to keep not her job, but her dream of becoming a producer alive. Her environment is full of humiliation, abuse in every form and all the ingredients of what we consider toxic. Great depicture of the incompetency of HR as well. 

The writer and director, which I now discover and will dive into her life and work, has definitely a first hand experience of what is going on in the open doors of our offices. Again I can not stress enough, how the Oscar for female lead belongs to Julia Garner. What an outstanding performance!!!!