
Daphne, 31, Londoner. Busy days, hectic nights, friends, people, lovers, are all welcome distractions from the constant and creeping feeling that her life is somehow stuck. Too young too settle quietly, too old to keep on messing about without aim. One night, an unexpected event slowly but steadily forces her to confront this existential limbo head on, and start looking very closely at the person she has become.... (Full plot summary below)
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Daphne, 31, Londoner. Busy days, hectic nights, friends, people, lovers, are all welcome distractions from the constant and creeping feeling that her life is somehow stuck. Too young too settle quietly, too old to keep on messing about without aim. One night, an unexpected event slowly but steadily forces her to confront this existential limbo head on, and start looking very closely at the person she has become.
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| Dog and WolfAlexa DalbyDebut director Peter Mackie Burns and screenwriter Nico Mensinga have created a fascinating character who encapsulates a certain kind of contemporary urban London life. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIt's one of the best films about London living I can recently recall. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawBeecham is excellent as Daphne, portraying a character who has grown up with a certain level of entitlement but is now beginning to see how she is going nowhere and looking down through the gaps in the rope bridge to glimpse the emptiness below. |
| Time OutAnna SmithDaphne is a wisecracking wit who may just resemble women you actually know. Imagine that. |
| Observer (UK)Wendy IdeIntensely inhabited by Emily Beecham, it's a performance full of jangling discord and serrated edges, capturing a woman at the exact moment when circumstances magnify her already forcefully nihilistic personality. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanIf you're a fan of Bridesmaids, Obvious Child and/or TV shows such as Girls and Fleabag, you'll feel a tingle of rapture, roughly 10 minutes into the proceedings. That feeling won't go away. |
| Empire MagazineHelen O'HaraAtmospheric and startlingly well performed by the cast, this is a compelling character study. Daphne may find people largely annoying, but there's inspiration in her determination to find her way. |
| Hot PressRoe McDermottMackie Burns perfectly evokes this isolation in his portrayal of London, watching closely as people interact in workplaces, bars and bedrooms across the impersonal city. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyA character study that, much like its titular subject, refuses to conform to neat, trite expectations (as marvellously inhabited by Emily Beecham) is an appealing mess of uncertainties. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Hilary A WhiteThere is lots of sharp humour in Peter Mackie Burns's film but also a low-level ache that swells in volume with masterful subtlety. |