Cath Clarke 

Break My Fall – review

This multi-character account of young Londoners sharing a flat is fashionably shot but short on compelling drama, says Cath Clarke
  
  

Break My Fall
Urban warriors ... Break My Fall Photograph: PR

She's supposed to be walking out on her girlfriend and their grubby flat; instead 25-year-old musician Liza (Kat Redstone) flakes out and falls asleep. That's the trouble with people who drink too much and do drugs: they can be half-arsed. In her stylishly scuzzy low-fi debut, director Kanchi Wichmann never manages to portray her doing-nothing-very-much hip young things as particularly engaging. At best she creates a heartfelt, occasionally touching, study of four friends living in each others' pockets: a lesbian couple breaking up, a straight(ish) man working as a rent boy, a barman ready for a full-time boyfriend. But the acting is patchy, episodes of kitchen-sink drama flat-footed, and – this could spell kiss of death to its cult potential – thuddingly earnest in places.

 

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