The lukewarm regency romance, “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” depends on Jeremy Malcolm (Sope Dirisu). Jeremy Malcolm (Sope Dirisu) is a wealthy and aloof single who is looking for a woman who meets the appropriate spouse’s 10-point checklist. The problem begins with Malcolm rejecting the singleton Zawe Ashton, who failed point 4, and “speaking wisely.” Julia, who vows her revenge, plans to manipulate her snob to fall in love with her childhood friend Serena Dalton (Freda Pinto). (In one scene, Serena is made to look like a piano virtuoso.) Serena disagrees enough to succumb to her bossy friend’s plans, as her leaves drift downstream.
However, this movie is too soft to blame Julia as a nasty girl who grew up in manners. (It might be more fun if it weren’t.) The early sequence is stimulated by a sign of compassion for becoming an uneasy wife in this society. The script, which adopted her own novel of the same name by Sae Yamamoto Alain, seems to suggest that her marriage-oriented society is raising a shallow and superficial girl. Director Emma Holly Jones clearly agrees, overlaying an image of a cute bird in a cage next to a shot of a desperate debutant wearing a hat with pink feathers. .. In the opera scene, Jones shows that a young woman is so absorbed in gossip that she can’t turn her attention to Rossini, who stirs her soul on stage.
Jones clearly sets an important romantic scene during horse auctions and board games, but lacks to go beyond the well-known suggestion that commerce is the equivalent of commerce and chess. I am. Establishing sympathy for the resentful Julia, who plays with a surprisingly light touch, even if Ashton is forced into an unruly scenario, the film will solve various love plots until everyone is paired. By struggling with, it continues to double into its own social criticism, turned off, and all insights into the status of women have been neatly wiped out under the Persian rug.
Focus Serena is wise and kind — and as entertaining as a normal meringue. Her deceived suitor, Malcolm, has little personality beyond the appearance of the dance floor approaching every ball, as if it were made of hot lava. He is often said to be arrogant. The counter-argument is that most of the items on Malcolm’s list (truth, philanthropic, reading books) are rational. Comedies of a more innovative era can be made out of his frustration trying to find these basics among the upper classes.
Instead, Dilith’s cautious gravity allows the seemingly protagonist Malcolm to beat Captain Henry Ossory of Theo James, a flashy, mustache-bearing love rival who threatens to win Serena. To Amelia Warner’s score announces when to titter and when to faint. In her most subtle prosperity, it involves a fierce military march in a women’s marriage campaign.
Malcolm’s list
Rated PG. Execution time: 1 hour 55 minutes. At the theater.