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The Drama a darkly funny anti-romance, Girl is Shu Qi's gritty memoir
The Straits Times
|April 16, 2026
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star as Charlie and Emma, an engaged couple whose nuptials in the coming week are spectacularly derailed by a plot twist.
THE DRAMA (M18) 106 minutes, opens on April 16 ★★★☆☆
The story: British expat Charlie, a museum curator, and American literary editor Emma share a trendy apartment in Boston and the promise of a happy future.
But at a drunken dinner, she elects to also share a transgression from her teens. The act is one of particular political sensitivity in the United States. Her maid of honour (Alana Haim) is revolted, and The Drama is an American relationship cringe comedy about the catastrophic fallout.
The cinema of Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick Of Myself, 2022; Dream Scenario, 2023) leans into discomfort: Charlie’s, as he processes the bombshell confession; and the viewer’s, watching him endure the wedding industrial complex of photographers and florists, his awful misgivings setting in all the while.
The camera jump-cuts anxiously like his flinches and averted eye contact, and the audio further unsettles by undulating between sound and silence: Emma is partially deaf. Not to mention bewildered, stung and stunned by Charlie’s overreaction.
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