Anne Hathaway Almost Saves the Day in Eileen

There comes a time in every actor’s life—or, let’s say, every movie star’s life—when they should forsake the stress of maintaining bankable relatability and just embrace the weird. That’s the thought I had while watching Anne Hathaway in the film Eileen, a curious literary adaptation from Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd that premiered here at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. Hathaway is not the lead of the film, which is adapted from the Ottessa Moshfegh novel, but she is the driving energy of it. She plays the fabulously named Rebecca Saint John, a Hitchcock-blonde psychiatrist who’s accepted a position… Read Full Article