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Dir. Josephine Decker
2020 | 107 mins | USA

I’m a witch, didn’t anyone tell you?

When we first meet Shirley (Elisabeth Moss), soon to become America’s queen of horror fiction, she seems to be no such thing; just a sad, drunken shut-in, married to a cheating English professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) and blocked as a writer. But with the arrival of Rose (Odessa Young) and her teaching-assistant husband Fred (Logan Lerman), Shirley reveals herself as a far crueller and more sophisticated creature, seducing the innocent girl into becoming her companion and accomplice in the new mystery novel she is writing.

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf is clearly a touchstone, but Josephine Decker’s psychodrama goes further, blurring the boundaries of biopic and fiction in exploring the cruel forces that can feed creativity.

Showing Times

• Fri 13 Nov: 1.45pm
• Fri 13 Nov: 8pm
• Sat 14 Nov: 1pm
• Sat 14 Nov: 7.40pm
• Sun 15 Nov: 12.30pm
• Tue 17 Nov: 10.45am
• Tue 17 Nov: 7pm
• Wed 18 Nov: 4pm
• Thu 19 Nov: 7.15pm

Ticket Prices

• £8* Standard
• £5* Student / Under 2ss

F-RATING

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

Shirley is Triple F-Rated – directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>