Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook play the title roles in this cross-cultural romance, set in the British city of Bradford and directed by Clio Barnard ('The Selfish Giant').
celebrates love finding a way not just across cultural divides, but also cheers on a couple who don’t look like the usual aspirational beautiful, albeit middle-aged, people around which most mainstream films revolve. With his asymmetrical features and the melancholic mien of a disappointed basset hound, Akhtar has seldom been cast in lead roles, let alone romantic leads.
Ava is literally from the other side of the tracks. The daughter of Irish Republicans who fiercely mistrusted all Brits, she married young and had several kids by a couple of different men. The last partner, now deceased, became physically and psychologically abusive, to the point where he would make Ava fetch the hobnailed boots he liked to wear while kicking her.
While Akhtar and Rushbrook have a friendly, easy manner with each other, there’s little to suggest a grand passion here.
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