Movie Review: 'Eileen,' a wonderful novel about an 'invisible' young lady becomes a oddball film
by Mark Kennedy
Nov 30, 2023
3 minutes
Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don't just mean the plot of “Eileen.” The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's delicious coming-of-age heroine has had a weird birth onto film.
The plot and setting haven't changed: It's late 1964 in a frigid coastal town in . “Everybody’s kind of angry here — it’s Massachusetts,” Eileen explains in one her best lines. She works as a clerk at a juvenile
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