The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia is the story of a former big to do on YouTube, an influencer whose better days are behind her. Forced to take jobs she feels are beneath her, she struggles to regain her influence. She also attempts to frame a fellow influencer for a crime and it blows back as she finds herself in with some really bad guys.
Less a straight on thriller, the fragmented telling makes this more a character study of a desperate woman than a full on thriller. What will we do to be loved? Are we actually being loved on the internet or is it all an illusion? Is everything we tell ourselves just lies? This film wants to explore those notions, some times at the cost of a perfect narrative.
That the film works as well as it does is due to the cast. Jo Schaeffer as Cecilia is shattering as a woman somewhere beyond broken whose every step is forcing her to slide down a broken razor into a heap of trouble. It’s a performance that hurts to watch at times as you want to scream at the screen for her to stop. Everyone else is a close second, with everyone giving performances that are real and raw.
This is a small gem of a film. Its something you should put on you radar
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