On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell (Tom Cullen) heads out to a nightclub in Nottingham, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen (Chris New). And so begins a weekend – in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex – that will resonate throughout their lives.
This refreshingly frank, deceptively simple boy-meets-boy tale is an impressively laid-bare, introspective spotlighting of queer intimacy, featuring remarkable chemistry between then-newcomers Cullen and New. Much as with his stunning All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s emotionally perceptive ability as a filmmaker to unravel modern gay life and love is second to none.
