A local channel has been playing this film like every Sunday lately. I put it on out of boredom one day, knowing nothing about it, and was slowly drawn in by Anna's journey towards her 30th birthday, a journey about much more than turning 30. It starts off as a bit of a sleeper, but once you start piecing together what's really going on, it's really quite moving. I've seen it twice more, and each time I spot more layers of foreshadowing and double meanings. Perhaps the film is an acquired taste, or perhaps it is finding me at an emotionally vulnerable moment in life and is saying something to me. The British dialect was hard for me to understand sometimes, and I took off one star because of excessive vulgarity. But the characters are quirky and memorable, I love the cinematic feel of the country scenery, I found the music to be on point in a contemporary pop way, and apart from the vulgarity the dialogue can be quite witty in that inimitable British style.
Review of Adult Life Skills
Adult Life Skills
(2016)
Quirky, offbeat, very emotional, occasionally awkward, quite moving film.
31 August 2020