'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' (2018) - Marielle Heller.

While I was gripped by this blackened dramedy that bluntly exposed the increasingly felonious literary travails of depressed, downward spiralling writer Lee Israel with an unflinchingly surgical precision, but, frankly, I uncomfortably recognized a little too much of myself in the boozily antagonistic, self-annihilating writer to make it an altogether comfortable experience. And next to his immortally wasted wastrel Withnail, this is arguably one of Richard E. Grant's most exhilaratingly eccentric performances! The mordant wit that fizzes facetiously throughout 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' is deliciously caustic, and the crushing, ethanol-soaked weltschmerz of these marvellously mischievous misfits is wholly palpable! A clearly inspired Melissa McCarthy viciously portrays one of the most convincing writers that I have ever seen depicted on film. And I'm surprised more folk haven't picked up on the morally mutable Bukowski tonalities, the frustratingly contradictory characteristics of these two damaged, night-dwelling creatures being far closer to the warped human condition than is usually depicted. But it's the exuberantly acidic badinage exchanged between Grant and McCarthy in the bravura bar sequences that suggest the distinct possibility of Marielle Heller's sublime 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' being regarded as a future midnight movie classic? 

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