In The Powerful 'Una,' A Woman Wants Vengeance — And More
In this "intelligently talky, properly claustrophobic chamber piece,' Rooney Mara plays a woman who confronts the man who sexually abused her when she was a girl.
by Ella Taylor
Oct 05, 2017
2 minutes
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, an intelligently talky, properly claustrophobic chamber piece directed by Benedict Andrews and adapted by Scottish playwright David Harrower from his 2005 stage play , revisits a middle-aged man's past sexual abuse of a precocious adolescent when the victim confronts him many years later. In form and subject, if not in tone, the film recalls David Mamet's 1994 , a stridently partisan polemic adapted from Mamet's play about a college professor's
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