Alia Shawkat is a modern-day Withnail in bittersweet buddy comedy Animals

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This tale of an unapologetically messy duo approaching third-life crisis is a love letter to female friendship and early-30s angst.

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"Although I have come close on forty-nine / I have no child, I have nothing but a book," wrote a self-reflective W.B. Yeats in the opening verses of his 1914 collection Responsibilities.

Thirty two-year-old Yeats devotee and aspiring writer Laura, the protagonist of Animals, has neither child nor book — just a pronounced fondness for white wine and MDMA, and a larger-than-life best friend with whom she frequently indulges in one or both. But she's starting to reconsider her own pleasure principles.

In Australian producer-director Sophie Hyde's bittersweet and resonant buddy movie — based on the Emma Jane Unsworth novel — Laura is brought to life by a spunky and sensual, yet brittle, Holliday Grainger , sporting a choppy red bob that gives her something of a millennial Miranda Hobbes vibe. BFF duties, meanwhile, go to indie darling Alia Shawkat , who seems totally at home in the role of Tyler: a self-described"notable broad about town", as sharp-tongued as she is charming.

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