Address: Clio Barnard
Translators: Claire Rushbrook, Adeel Akhtar, Shaun Thomas, Ellora Torchia, Natalie Gavin, Mona Goodwin
Year: 2021
premiere: 26 August 2022
★★★★
British social cinema doesn’t always have to be sad, decadent or miserable. Genre expert Mike Leigh has already demonstrated this with ‘Happy is a story about happiness’, in which he tries to reverse the stereotypes of the genre by putting a smile on the face of difficulties. Always an interesting indie director, Clio Barnard does something similar with lead actress Ava (an exceptional Claire Rushbrook). In the London suburbs without the sun always shining. She is a single woman who has had the opportunity to be with Ali, a man in the process of separation, who has almost always had to support his large family in precariousness. rebuild your love life.
But despite being a movie with a romantic background, Barnard avoids any sentimentality because what interests him is to reflect the reality of his characters in a casual and transparent way. no sweet tricksby exploring their doubts, feelings and hopes.
An exciting little story about ‘Ali and Ava’ lonely souls found and learn to accept and love each other. First they do this through songs, they turn the movie into a movie. unexpected music In it comes the folk to La Roux, through the punk of the Buzzcocks, to calmly explore the problems of adult life, then always complex.