NOCTURNAL (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Cosmo Jarvis (Calm with Horses), Lauren Coe (The Devil’s Doorway), Sadie Frost (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Yasmin Monet Prince (film debut), Laurie Kynaston (England Is Mine), Amber Jean Rowan (How to Be Happy), Ella-Grace Gregoire (Sometimes Always Never), Amy Griffiths (London Road), Patrick Connolly (Blood and Glory)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Nathalie Biancheri (I Was Here), director, writer; Olivia Waring (film debut), writer; Colin Michael Day (Queen of Carthage) and Coco Marie Schneider (film debut), producers; Aaron Cupples (The Disappearance of My Mother), composer; Michal Dymek (My Friend the Polish Girl), cinematographer; Andonis Trattos (Calm with Horses), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In an unremarkable Yorkshire town, Pete (Jarvis), a withdrawn thirty-something who occasionally works as a handyman at a local school, meets Laurie (Coe), a sullen teenager who’s recently moved into the area with her mother (Frost). The two strangers and outsiders slowly form a connection with each other, and it isn’t long before their unique bond grows into something else…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Cosmo Jarvis, who earlier this year received some stunning praise for his emotional work in Calm with Horses, makes good on his early promise with another powerful performance in this gripping character study about an unlikely relationship.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2020

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