![]() ![]() It’s a narrative style I associate with the films of Andrew Haigh and Joanna Hogg, two great visual poets of social anxiety and reticence … Rooney’s dialogue is frequently perfect, so perfect that it occasionally turns into a flaw. Her writing about sex is taut and direct. ![]() This can be lovely, as when she describes empty rooms or the touch of someone’s hand on a wrist. Rooney writes scenes as though she had to type them out on a TI-89. “… has the arid, intense melancholy of a Hopper painting … In these sections, particularly passages written in Eileen’s voice, Rooney sheds the stiff pelt of scene-building and attains a clarity reminiscent of Rachel Cusk’s in her Outline trilogy … is carefully formless and its characters are fluent in our lingua franca of systemic collapse, that neoliberal patter of learned helplessness in the face of larger capital and labor systems … kind of a vibey omniscience that proceeds by way of spare descriptions. ![]()
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