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Daphne review – sex, drugs and nihilism

Daphne is a Londoner in her early 30s who lives her life like an act of war. Intensely inhabited by Emily Beecham, it’s a performance full of jangling discord and serrated edges, capturing a woman at the exact moment when circumstances magnify her already forcefully nihilistic personality.

Even before Daphne, a junior chef in a busy kitchen, witnesses a violent stabbing in a convenience store, she drinks hard, takes drugs and sleeps with whoever she wants.

She rebuffs the attempts of anyone to get close to her – she deliberately and repeatedly gets the name of one hapless conquest wrong, before brushing his hand away like dandruff and stomping off into the night. She recoils from her well-meaning mother’s mindfulness DVD as if she has just been handed a bag of cold vomit.

It’s tempting to draw parallels between Daphne in this striking first feature from Peter Mackie Burns and the protagonist in Carine Adler’s Under the Skin, who spirals into self-destruction after her mother’s death.

But that would suggest a tragic, victim-like quality to Daphne which is simply not the case. Her main problem is an eye-rolling impatience that sees her bored with each experience – food, sex, conversation – before it has even finished.

As such, this is almost as much a portrait of a city as it is a person – London, with its manifold distractions and endless scope for bad behaviour, is the ideal playground for the self-sabotaging thrill-seeker.