GINGER & ROSA ★★☆

Accidental viewing. I had a ticket for something at Hoyts, and showed up at Kino instead, so I wound up watching this film. It’s about two teenage girls growing up in post-war Britain, set during the Cuban missile crisis. The set design was incredible, the acting was great, but somewhat like the opening night film, not really a film that’s to my taste, so I’m possibly unfairly rating it at 2.5 stars here.

DAPHNE ★★★★

Debut feature length film by a very amusing director, Peter Mackie Burns, who was present to introduce the film and do a Q&A afterwards. It’s an extension of his short film ‘Happy Birthday to Me’ which can be streamed for free on Vimeo, and is about a 31 year old woman who’s life isn’t really heading anywhere, and who tends to be fairly self-centred. Despite not being a particularly kind person, she is likeable and the director does a great job at creating empathy for her. For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s stuff (Fleabag, Crashing).