Mr Wrong - Wellington Film Society

Gaylene Preston, NZ 1985, 89 minutes.

Director Dame Gaylene Preston will introduce the film and be available for a Q&A at its conclusion.

Mr Wrong skilfully succeeds at both self-reflexivity and social comment. In addition, it’s a superbly entertaining thriller. Its tight and well-scripted plot exploits many of the cliches and conventions of the genre, while simultaneously turning an incisive and perceptive eye on the ideological substructure of those very conventions. Preston spotlights the inbuilt sexism of the genre and illuminates its uncomfortable preoccupations with power, sex and death, and some of the nastier links between that unholy trinity that permeates the dominant ethos.

- Jo Seton, “Meg and the Space Invaders - Mr. Wrong as a Feminist Thriller”, Illusions, no.2, Winter 1986.