CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
Jan 23, 2022
3 minutes
by REBECCA ZHONG
A Very Nice Girl is no love story, but its main character desperately wants it to be. The debut from London-based Imogen Crimp follows the life of twenty-something Anna, an aspiring opera singer attending a prestigious London conservatoire. She struggles to keep up with her more moneyed, self-assured classmates, and sings jazz at night to make rent. Along the way, Anna meets Max, a wealthy older man in the midst of a divorce. She longs for connection with him, but the cost may be her singing career.
In many ways, Anna encapsulates what it means
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