Daphne exclusive clip: Emily Beecham shows how not to impress on a first date
She stars in a thoroughly modern look at London life and the excesses of modern anxiety
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Daphne tells the story of 31-year-old Londoner (Emily Beecham) who manages to capture a modern slice of contemporary anxiety: swinging wildly between an image of success and confidence, to a cycle of impulse and self-destruction.
Her world, however, starts to spiral out of control when she becomes the witness to a violent stabbing. It's a fork in the road of her own emotional development: an opportunity to reframe her worldview, or sink to the very bottom.
Daphne marks the debut of Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns, with Hail, Caesar!'s Emily Beecham as the titular lead, in a film which has already made a splash at several film festivals.
The film was first shown at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and South by Southwest, before receiving its UK premiere at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, where Beecham won Best Performance in a British Feature Film.
Daphne hits UK cinemas on 29 September.
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