Bad Behaviour

Aimless and not always in a good way, struggles to give good actors solid writing

This review is for Jennifer Connelly, whose acting saved this film. Can we please get more of her? Cause honestly, girl took a terrible script and some other slightly annoying acting and made this film happen.

Fancy pants—let me be comedic by poking fun at ‘enlightenment’ (which looks like it’s going to work at first) but falls on its boring face…. Hard! Watched in on a plane. Would not have endured it at home… so boring. 🥱

Incoherent, uninteresting, and pointless. Imagine being a fly-on-the-wall at a retreat where nothing much happens other than retreat-like stuff until someone gets assaulted with a chair. That’s the half of it. The other half of it deals with some inferred mother/daughter drama with a couple other characters thrown in the middle of it.

I am actually upset to see all these negative reviews of this film. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was refreshing in its manner of story-telling, with non-linear elements that were not overwhelming to the overall delivery. The comments of it not coming together make me wonder if we watched the same movie. It most definitely comes together. Aside from its structural ingenuity, the film has a perfect touch of absurdity mixed with sincere, heavy emotions and existential dilemmas. I loved the movement (literally her bodily motion) of the daughter throughout the film. I really hope this film gets the love it deserves; I think it will probably have a cult following with time. I really look forward to seeing more from this director.

Connelly gives an engaging performance, but it's very difficult to like a movie with no heroes . All the characters are unlikable, and Lucy ( Connelly) is a poster child of self absorbed psychopathic narcissism. Everyone else supports her in a delirious codependency that becomes exhausting to watch.

“Bad Behaviour” is a comedy with dark edginess and insightful character drama touching on hangups from shallow social culture, to healing relations after deep family trauma. Instead of hitting you over the head with cringy ugly crying, it keeps you working to really see complex characters through absurd situations. It’s smart, deadpan, even dark at times, goofy and touching even, with a kind of post punk storytelling all working to resolve heavy trauma with believable familiarity. It reminds me of the first time I watched “Trust” by Hal Hartley. All of the actors shine, especially Connelly who is masterful here, and I’ll be looking for more from Alice Englert who is strong enough to provide us with cinema that rewards us if we collaborate.

Terrible, no plot, disappointing and a waste of time.