This very British, loose variation on Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands follows an apparently everyday couple who go on holiday together for the first time. Tina and Chris are both in their thirties. She lives at home with her dominant and fairly hysterical mother; he is a connoisseur of attractions such as the pencil museum in Keswick and the Valhalla for tram lovers, the Crich Tramway Village.
Once on holiday, they get to really know each other. Tina discovers that good-natured, gentle Chris has a darker side – he doesn’t hesitate to kill people who annoy him. In turn, she surprises him with the ease with which she goes along with his murderous lusts.
After the violent gangster comedy Down Terrace and the horror film Kill List, Ben Wheatley’s third film has a lighter tone. The screenplay was not written by himself this time, but by the protagonists Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, who come from the British comedy circuit.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 89'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
