Elisabeth Moss goes gloriously demented in Shirley: Sundance review
work with ambitious, involving indies . In Shirley Jackson, the actress veers from grumpy to menacing to touching, turning in what may be her best — and is surely her wittiest — film performance to date.
True to mercurial form, Shirley is energized by the young couple’s arrival. She barks orders, throws things across rooms, forces uncomfortable topics at the dinner table — sometimes with a sly smile, others with a terrifying frown, occasionally both. But as Fred falls deeper into academic life, Rose resists the domestic trappings of her current situation, drawn as she is to Shirley’s brilliant work and toxic process.
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