Somebody is sending vulgar, profanity fuelled letters to upstanding Christian woman Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and her stuffy parents Edward and Victoria (Timothy Spall and Gemma Jones). The latter 2 suspect brash, bolshy Irish neighbour Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley), and all seems open and shut. But when new Women Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) raises doubts about this theory, she is ignored and the community finds itself confronting a spiralling secret of vulgarity going against the norms they have been raised upon!
A fairly funny, foul mouthed little film really elevated by the performances of Colman and Buckley. Whilst some of the humour gets a bit broad and "Saturday morning sitcom", it keeps a good pace, weaves a fine line between multiple genres, and stays pretty funny. At the end of the day, it's a solid little film about frustration, and the social norms of the time and how they constrict and ruin us, and the burgeoning beginnings of breaking free of it.
Plus I get to see Dame Eileen Atkins say "Fuck them up their fucking arseholes" and swig from a canteen.
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