Cat Person: 'The film is littered with excruciating foreshadowing, such as when, before Margot walks down a lonely night-time street, her stage-struck pals sing a warning lyric from Sondheim’s Into the Woods.'I have come across complaints that the studios don’t release enough horror films for what we are now obliged to call “spooky season”. Fear not .
‘How are you meant to enjoy sex and a relationship?’ The reality of living with your parents in your 30sSaoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, together at last! They’ve collided, anyhow Cat Person managed the useful trick of not only inviting Generation Z to recognise their own discontents but also pointing their parents’ and grandparents’ generation towards alterations in gender politics. There is some surprising cultural travelogue in the film also. Of all the appalling things I feared Zoomers might get up to, listening to David Essex was not high on the list. Yet so it appears.
Much of Roupenian’s salty take on online discourse remains, but it gets drowned out by the wheezing noise as a slim source is inflated well beyond bursting point. The film is littered with excruciating foreshadowing, such as when, before Margot walks down a lonely night-time street, her stage-struck pals sing a warning lyric from Sondheim’s Into the Woods. It is always a pleasure to welcome Isabella Rossellini, but her brief turn as a teacher feels like a favour not worth bestowing.