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‘The Rule Of Jenny Pen’ Review: A Master Class In Acting As John Lithgow Terrorizes Geoffrey Rush In A Nursing Home Full Of Elder Abuse
A review of 'The Rule Of Jenny Pen' with John Lithgow terrorizing fellow resident Geoffrey Rush in a nursing home where elder abuse runs rampant
Right down to the film’s posters featuring an image of a broken doll you clearly have a template for Jenny Pen, but the genders have been cleverly switched here, and the dark tone veering with campy black comedy has deepened even into Polanski territory. He is quite a miserable f**k to all around him but he is about to meet his match in one of the residents, Dave Crealy (Lithgow), a man who walks around with an appendage of a puppet he names Jenny Pen, and appears at first to be in a stage of dementia, but is as we find out, really the deranged class bully as it were – and worse. The supporting cast, mostly all New Zealand acting veterans, is superb with Matt Henley’s fine camera work often claustrophobically closing in on their faces, even to the point of making them the objects of absurdity.
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