Alice Englert Makes an Utterly Incoherent Feature Directorial Debut in ‘Bad Behaviour’
Indulgence can not only be fun, but glorious, and the film industry itself would hardly exist without it. But self-indulgence disguised as self-punishment is the worst, particularly from white women who are cursed with a lack of self-awareness.
Bad Behaviour starts off on exactly the wrong foot, with a voice proclaiming over New Agey music, “The mind does anything to stay in power.” Anything that asks you to surrender your mind doesn’t bode well for whatever is being sold, and there’s a sense that despite the self-conscious tone of its faux enlightenment proclamation, audiences are in for a bad trip.
