Last Night in Soho (2021)

Recently accepted to a London fashion design school, naïve and sheltered Thomasin McKenzie is also uncomfortably obsessed with the style of the 1960s. On her first night sleeping at her new bedsit, she finds herself transported to that decade and following Anya Taylor-Joy, a woman who appears to encompass all Thomasin finds attractive about the time period. She soon finds out nostalgia for a decade she didn’t live through is too often misguided. The first half of this is a fluffy, candy-colored, fish out of water story. Then out of nowhere it turns on its head and becomes a dark, shadowy ghost story involving prostitution and murder. The characters throughout are some of the most one-dimensional, cliched cutouts of actual human beings I’ve ever seen on screen. Most egregiously, the film presents the possibility that the pimp and johns that exploited the young woman are the biggest victims.