Gillian (Jemima Kirke) and Oliver (Richard Elis) are a couple in their 30s live on the Welsh coast and are the best of friends, if only sex didn't get in the way causing both of them to stray.
A low budget indie drama that had potential that it fails to fulfill. Both the film and its characters seem very self indulgent to the point that the film outstays its welcome. Alice Lowe is one of the few bright parts of the film though who plays Gillian's fling.
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A wanna-be author feels pressured to move beyond her meandering writing career and get a more stable job. She decides to organize a Shakespeare festival, a plan that could have tricky ramifications for her marriage.
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December 11, 2022 at 11:20 AM
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A disappointing indie drama on relationships
whose film is it anyway?
It's an unfortunate fact for film-makers that improvising dialogue doesn't make things seem more real; it actually only makes you more aware that the actors are acting, and at the same time makes it more difficult for a film to keep a sense of direction. This largely feels like a series of improv sketches, some obviously meant to be funny; but I don't think you can have a comedy in English based around infidelity, it just feels too sad. The French could maybe manage it, they're more cynical about these things.
So it's not great by any means but it deserves a *little* better than the average mark here if only for the sharp performances and - for a British film - lack of hand-wringing.
Beached Wales!
I don't believe it!
Well, I can believe that these are actors, but I can't believe any of the characters. Gillian as a budding playwright? Oliver as a party DJ? No, I'm not buying it.
Rachel on the phone to Gerald: "Hi Gerald, it's Rachel. [...] Dick's daughter. Dick. Dick. Yes his daughter."
Yes, that's the sort of dialogue that makes this a "comedy".
(EDITED to correct "Rachel" to "Gillian" in the 2nd paragraph.)