No offence to any Clives studying, however the deliberately naff title of this movie doesn’t encourage confidence – and seems to be indicative of the cheerful ridiculousness of this tremendous low finances British comedy. It’s a few trio of twentysomethings on a highway journey to Cornwall in the beginning of one of many Covid lockdowns; from the outtakes and behind the scenes clips that run over the top credit, everybody concerned clearly had a blast making it. However that enjoyment doesn’t spill on to the display – and the whimsical songs accompanied by a ukulele put on skinny in lower than half a minute.
Eleanor Might Blackburn is Bonnie, who has two days to get to her grandparents’ home in Cornwall from south London earlier than lockdown. Simply as she is about to hit the highway, Bonnie meets homeless busker Clive (Michael Kodi Farrow) and gives to purchase him a kebab. However when her bank card is declined on the until, she rushes out with out paying, leaving Clive to carry out a stickup along with his ukulele case to the bemusement of the kebab store proprietor.
The pair take off in a retro Nineties camper van, selecting up hitchhiker Wilco (James Jip), a social anthropology pupil who has run away from college, unable to hack lockdown. There are many pictures filmed out of the window as they drive westward, and scenic moments at vacationer websites together with Stonehenge and Dartmoor, and one other involving the trio pushing a lifeless physique in a wheelchair across the Eden Mission. It’s persistently, annoyingly quirky, and a few of the performances have that over-acted, exaggerated fashion familar from youngsters’ TV.
Bonnie and Clive is in UK cinemas from 3 June.
