The comedy Naughty Homecoming, inspired by a true story, debuts in our theaters on April 18th. The protagonists are Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley and, in an exclusive preview clip that we show you, there is also a female policeman, which is unusual for Sussex in the 1920s.
Two women talk about anonymous letters full of insults and insults that, according to most, one of them wrote. The other, who is a policewoman, thinks differently, first of all because the handwriting of the defamatory letters is different from that of her interlocutor, who is called Rose and makes improper use of capital letters. All this happens in one clip Mischief at home which we are showing you in an exclusive preview today.
We are in southern England in 1922, where the trauma of the First World War has not yet been overcome and society is bigoted and patriarchal. Yet in the streets suffragettes are demanding that the right to vote be extended to all women in the United Kingdom. At the time, a woman who decided to join the police could not start a family and she was still judged inferior to her male colleagues. The agent in the skirt in the clip is a real-life character. Her name was Gladys Moss and was the first policewoman in the history of Sussex. What is told in the rest of the film is also true, and we know that the letters sent the entire nation into turmoil.
The British comedian turned the curious story into a film script Johnny Sweetwhile the theater director took care of directing the film Thea Sharrock.
Mischief at home it begins as a comedy, but gradually becomes more serious, also due to its social and in a certain sense political meaning. In such a dark scenario, the rebellion of Rose It’s a breath of fresh air, and it gives verve to this determined and slightly scurrilous Irishwoman Jessie Buckley. The other protagonist – the spinster Edith Swan – is played by Olivia Colman, which gives the character a melancholy tone. In filming the two women, the Sharrock it went in two different directions. In scenes with Rose he moved the camera to suggest liveliness while filming Edith she remained motionless. Also starring Timothy Spall, in the role of the master father of Edith, Mischief at home will be released on April 18th distributed by Lucky Red.
Naughtiness at home: the clip in exclusive preview
And here is the exclusive preview clip of the film we told you about at the beginning:
