Nice, sweet film about the relationship between an older white woman and an isolated British-Asian young man in Bradford. Among the things I liked about it were the positive depictions of what white people had got from their encounter with their Asian-origin neighbours...the little white girl doing Indian-style dancing from a video (with her sometimes-racist older brother joining in) is the example that struck me first. This is a depiction of two communities living alongside each other and picking stuff up...not exactly integrating, but not hostile and hating either.
In an understated way both the protagonists are people who are not completely limited by their class position either; she's been to university and got a degree in Criminology, he reads poetry. And it avoids the familiar rom-com tropes of will-they-won't-they, while remaining gentle and affection all along.
This is the second time I've watched it, but I couldn't find an earlier review.
Watched via informal distribution too.
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