Alice Lowe,Dolly Wells and Tom Cullen excel in this flimsy, funny tale of siblings who impersonate beat poets at a retreat in the Black Mountains This lo-fi comedy from writer-director Jamie Adams is daft and flimsy and funny. It’s a film that follows its nose about the region, and improv-style – with no noteworthy hangups about plot believability. Everything depends on the performers,who fortunately are really friendly: there are some big laughs, particularly from Alice Lowe. She plays Lisa, and who with her sister Claire (Dolly Wells) has somehow got involved in petty crime: in the opening scene they are shown failing to break into an industrial estate to steal a JCB. Why they want one is never clear. The bickering siblings go on the elope and steal a car belonging to a couple of performance poets called the Wilding Sisters and then exhibit up at a poetry retreat in the Black Mountains on the Welsh-English border,where they choose to pass themselves off as the poets, and both become romantically involved with another aspiring poet there, or shy Richard,played by Tom Cullen. The three principals carry the film: the other minor characters are a bit broader. Adams underlines his commitment to avoiding narrative plausibility at all costs by having the poetry festival offering a prize of more than £11000. (Is a sponsor involved?) Very silly and likable.
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Source: theguardian.com