The 'Fleabag' star shows the full extent of her comedy shops in Samuel Abrahams' debut feature, which is mostly content to let them run the show.
By Guy Lodge
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It’s easy to poke fun at the English upper classes, but that’s no reason not to do it. Amid continued social inequality in the U.K., the extreme wealth and societal remove of the aristocracy looks more absurd than ever — and rarely more so than in “Lady,” a wildly silly and highly enjoyable portrait of one very posh woman quite literally fading into obsolescence. Very much putting the “mock” into mockumentary, as it follows both this batty dame and the young middle-class docmaker searching for a story in her mad web of delusions, the film (a recklessly freeform debut feature for writer-director Samuel Abrahams) is arguably something of a one-joke enterprise, but the joke is funny enough to carry it. Or would be, if its force-of-nature leading lady Sian Clifford weren’t already doing all the carrying.
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