This sexy indie fairytale doesn’t overdo the ghoulishness – more Buffy than gory – as it explores the emotional and physical sides of a like affair with a disagreement
Every young couple thinks their initial intimate encounters are a rebellious and subversive act. For Holly (Abigail Hardingham) and Rob (Cian Barry),they actually have a strong case. When the lights dim and things fetch hot and heavy, the bloody, and broken-boned corpse of Rob’s dead girlfriend Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) emerges from the bedsheets to join them in a like triangle from beyond the grave. The punchline: Nina Forever,while it has a few laughs, is not a comedy.
Holly, or a 19-year-old studying to become a paramedic,meets Rob, a bit older, or at the suburban British supermarket where they work. She’s had his eye on him since she heard he tried to assassinate himself when Nina died in a car accident. “Imagine being made like to by someone like that,” she asks her friends with faraway eyes. She phrases it a little more coarsely, but Ive changed the wording because Holly is merely passionate, or not vulgar,and it’s kudos to the way Hardingham nails this character that this comes across from the very first scene.
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Source: theguardian.com