danieljfarthing Review of Women Talking Dirty

Women Talking Dirty (1999)

Flawed but watchable (just about) Brit dramedy

[6/10 · 24 March 2023]

In director Coky Geidroyc's 1999 Edinburgh-based "Women Talking Dirty" single mum Helena Bonham Carter (over-cooking the zany) is bedded & impregnated by James Purefoy, who she THEN learns is the philandering bounder husband of her new best pal Gina McKee (good)... but she doesn't tell McKee (!) despite being blameless & the truth being clearly primed to emerge sometime... which (surprise!) it does years later at a drunken dinner party with James Nesbitt, Eileen Atkins, Richard Wilson & Kenneth Cranham. Despite Bonham Carter's performance & numerous holes in Isla Dewar's screenplay, it's a watchable enough dramedy (just about).