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Gritty yet incongruously gorgeous – and glacier-paced – this ambitious first feature from Midlands miserablist Duane Hopkins proves that crikey,
the British can do Bruno Dumont-style poetic realism after all.

It’s a melancholy but affecting skein of linked stories, in which Cotswold youths numb their pain with heroin, schoolkids trash a teen romance and OAPs battle for their marriage.

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