Adult Life Skills

classified 15
Film

Please note: This was screened in July 2016

Director
Rachel Tunnard
Cast
Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein
Details
94 mins, 2016, UK

This impressive debut feature from BAFTA-nominated short filmmaker Rachel Tunnard, adapted from her short Emotional Fusebox, takes a playful look at the stresses of modern living.

Anna (Jodie Whittaker) is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.

With its winning combination of self-awareness, brash comedy and a refreshing attitude to bereavement, Adult Life Skills oozes offbeat eccentricity. This is a rites-of-passage movie awash with dark humour and a distinctive poignancy - well worth a watch.


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