The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
- Winner Best Feature Film Philadelphia QFest
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Press Reviews
Maxine Peake’s performance blows a hole through the familiar frocks and bonnets setting. There’s no showboating, she’s pale, quiet, momentarily happy, but always consumed, and she leaves you wondering: is there a better actor in Britain today?
Peake is an extraordinary actress – both intensely human in her vulnerability and intensely disquieting … she was wonderfully well-cast here, veering between predatory seductiveness and agonised self-pity.
The script, penned by Sugar Rush scribe Jane English, is simply delicious…Peake is exquisite.
Mesmerising and liberating.
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister was notable for just how brilliantly right-on and rad it was… For starters it was almost entirely female cast…and, in the middle of it all, was the amazing Miss Lister – three hundred years ahead of her time, a little outpost of early rock’n’roll amongst the calico, carpets and coal of Halifax. Throughout, Peake depicts her as what she was – in her own way, as much of an explorer as Livingstone, as much of a revolutionary as Che Guevara.
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