Their father died and the brothers moved off around the same time, leaving Enola to be raised as their mother saw fit. In fairness, the device will probably seem much more natural to teen viewers, but it wouldn’t have taken much to make this film equally enjoyable to their elders.Įnola was born when Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes ( Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin) were nearly grown. Her motivations and emotions are perfectly legible from the start, and those little straight-to-camera reaction shots, usually done for mild comic effect, come to feel cloying. It’s not as valuable a device here as it was there, largely because Enola doesn’t need to explain herself nearly as much as the brilliant train-wreck character Waller-Bridge created. Bradbeer directed both seasons (minus the first episode) of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, and seems to have fallen in love with the show’s signature direct-address: Enola starts the film off by talking to us, and will make asides to the camera frequently throughout the film.
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