Film Review: Jessie Buckley in superb form as a woman struggling to keep a lid on it all in Men

The film operates as a kind of Jungian fever-dream, one chock-a-block with imagery and experiences drawn from folktale and mythology

Jessie Buckley stars in Men

★★★★☆

There is a moment of sly misdirection near the beginning of Men (16s), when Harper (Jessie Buckley) plucks a ‘forbidden’ apple from a tree as she arrives at the Hertfordshire country retreat she has booked for some rest and recuperation. Harper is no Eve seeking knowledge, however; in trying to suppress her memories, she is a woman straight out of Greek myth, consumed by guilt and pursued by Furies.