There is a lovely natural, unforced quality to this sensitive British cancer drama directed by 29-year-old Connor O’Hara. It’s a gentle, melancholy film about a man in his early 20s who has watched his best mates go off to uni while he’s stuck at home getting treatment for incurable testicular cancer. It’s based in part on O’Hara’s own experience of losing a friend young, which might explain his film’s low-key, unassuming style, and how few cancer movie cliches it regurgitates (for the most part).
Sex Education’s George Somner is Sid, who has been living with cancer for three years and hasn’t got long left. He’s gentle and thoughtful, shaped perhaps by getting a terminal cancer diagnosis so young. Tara Fitzgerald plays his mum, a hippyish singer who gave up touring with her band when Sid got sick; Geoff Bell is dad.
