Lady E's Wedding Revenge Plan
2020 · 11m · Singapore
Directed by Kathleen Bu
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, family
Tones: humorous, tender, whimsical
Eloise, an eccentric young girl, is terrified of growing up.
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A whimsical coming-of-age about wedding terror sounds like the kind of twee indie everyone applauds, but Bu's refusal to resolve Eloise's fear into a neat bow—letting the contradiction breathe—is genuinely weird in the best way.
Bu situates this squarely in the lineage of Vigo and Malle's child-centered films, where the camera's tenderness toward an eccentric protagonist becomes its own form of formal argument about growing up.
The film hinges entirely on the performance texture of Eloise herself—that specific frequency of deadpan-meets-vulnerable that makes her terror of adulthood feel both absurd and achingly real, elevated by Bu's restraint in letting the actor breathe rather than forcing the bit.