Rare Beasts
- 2021 film
Anti-romcom from actor Billie Piper, her directorial debut. Also features Leo Bill, Kerry Fox, Toby Woolf, David Thewlis and Lily James
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Rare Beasts review
Billie Piper makes her directorial debut with this acerbic romantic comedy.
Beth Webb, Radio Times, 17th May 2021Rare Beasts review
Single mother Mandy (Billie Piper) is a millennial woman in crisis. She's fallen in love -- or at least, into a relationship of sorts -- with colleague and kinda-misogynist Pete (Leo Bill); she works for a toxic company; her parents (Kerry Fox, David Thewlis) have separated and her son (Toby Woolf) has behavioural issues. Will, can, feminism help her through it all?
Terri White, Empire, 14th May 2021Venice review: Rare Beasts
Eccentrics run rampant in Rare Beasts, a spirited but far too indulgent study of a difficult woman in a difficult relationship with a difficult man. Making her directorial debut, actress Billie Piper emphatically throws caution to the wind, seeking nothing less than an unhinged portrait of modern life that strips away the niceties and clichés of the romantic comedy in order to arrive at something painful and true about love and commitment.
Tim Grierson, Screen Daily, 31st August 2019