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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Charlotte O'Sullivan

Rye Lane movie review: Peckham plays host to the rom-com of the year

David Jonsson’s not just talented, he’s smart. Like fellow Brits Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Comer, he chooses edgy projects with universal appeal. Luminous in HBO/BBC series Industry, the 28-year-old is just as radiant in a lovely film about Peckham that’s widely (and rightly) being called the rom-com of the year.

He’s Dom, an imaginative but tortoise-shy accountant who – when we first meet him – is sobbing in a public loo. Thanks to a conversation he has with energetic stranger Yas (a superb Vivian Oparah), we found out that Dom’s pining for his old girlfriend, who cheated on him with his best friend.

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