Aided by their care worker, a couple in love embark on an illegal tryst in an unsentimental romcom played with terrific gentleness and honesty
There’s a wonderful warmth and directness to this movie, adapted by Galway dramatist Christian O’Reilly from his original stage play, and directed by feature first-timer Len Collin.
In the lead roles, non-professionals Charlene Kelly and Kieran Coppinger have a terrific gentleness and honesty. They play Sophie and Larry – one has epilepsy and the other Down’s syndrome. Sophie is cared for in a community facility and Larry is at home with his mum, but they have met in Sophie’s care home and have fallen in love. And care worker Tom (Robert Doherty) has arranged to let them have an afternoon together in a local hotel in town, sneaking them away from a group trip to the cinema. This is against his better judgement,...
There’s a wonderful warmth and directness to this movie, adapted by Galway dramatist Christian O’Reilly from his original stage play, and directed by feature first-timer Len Collin.
In the lead roles, non-professionals Charlene Kelly and Kieran Coppinger have a terrific gentleness and honesty. They play Sophie and Larry – one has epilepsy and the other Down’s syndrome. Sophie is cared for in a community facility and Larry is at home with his mum, but they have met in Sophie’s care home and have fallen in love. And care worker Tom (Robert Doherty) has arranged to let them have an afternoon together in a local hotel in town, sneaking them away from a group trip to the cinema. This is against his better judgement,...
- 12/27/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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