With a game cast dramatizing true crime tropes (a small Irish town with suspicious townsfolk harboring dark secrets), “Bodkin” is primed to parody the popular, occasionally problematic genre. Instead, it merely adds to it.

Starring Kristen Wiig as an effervescent social climber, this lavish tribute to Palm Beach, Florida reimagines the coastal town in the summer of ’69 through a modern political lens that’s more cutting than camp.

The star of Jane Schoenbrun’s revelatory second film tells IndieWire how simply “looking for something that was really smart” set them on a path of personal discovery you could only find at the movies.