UK drama in which a young mother tries to rebuild her life after being left scarred by an acid attack.
Dirty God isn't always an easy watch, but it's a rewarding one that marks both Knight and Polak as exceptional talents. It also challenges preconceptions about conventional attractiveness in an elegant and thought-provoking way.
Slightly uneven but elevated by Vicky Knight’s performance.
Dirty God is successful in presenting rarely seen desires without judgement or artifice. But there are compromises as a result of a fixation with the surface. There’s plenty of flesh, skin and bones, but it comes at the expense of some soul.
An intimate portrait of a restless young woman seeking mind, body and soul comfort. Newcomer Vicky Knight is magnetic and there are flashes of kinetic brilliance despite sketchy stretches.
Gloria Bell is somewhat exhausting – both unbearably intimate and at a constant remove – but it is endlessly pulled back into focus by Moore, who has a firm understanding of the delicate balance between contentment and yearning, joy and pain, recklessness and spontaneity.
Julianne Moore lights up everything around her.
Real-life fire survivor and first-time actor Vicky Knight impresses as a young woman recovering from a horrific assault by her boyfriend.
Vicky Knight gives an assured debut performance in this powerful drama about a young woman rebuilding her life.
'I hated my burn scars until I made a movie'.
Sacha Polak on Dirty God.
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