
'Judy and Punch' is a dark fairy tale, taking the cultural convention of the Punch and Judy puppets and revealing their latent misogyny. Writer-director Mireille Foulkes goes all out in this debut feature, creating a lush, dense and anachronistic medieval world where period language meets modern slang and Tai Chi rubs shoulders with Leonard Cohen. Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman play their eponymous roles with fragility and grimacing menace respectively. Among the ensemble cast, Benedict Hardie shines as a soft-spoken police officer trying hard to be the voice of reason in a village out to stone and kill people (especially women) at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, while this whimsical world is carefully crafted, the on-the-nose satire is too obvious to make a lasting impact.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 45min
Year of release: 2019
Streaming Platform: N/A
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