Film
Old Boys (12A)
Dir. Toby Macdonald, UK, 2018, 96 mins.
Cast. Pauline Etienne, Jonah Hauer-King, Alex Lawther.
Taking inspiration from the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, but unfolding against the quintessentially British backdrop of an all-boys boarding school, the feature debut from director Toby MacDonald is a gently eccentric charmer of a film. At its heart is a precariously balanced love triangle between Agnes, the daughter of the new French master; Winchester, sports star and handsome thicko; and Amberson (Alex Lawther, The End of the F***ing World, Black Mirror, The Imitation Game), the unpopular scholarship boy whose words connect the other two.
Cast. Pauline Etienne, Jonah Hauer-King, Alex Lawther.
Taking inspiration from the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, but unfolding against the quintessentially British backdrop of an all-boys boarding school, the feature debut from director Toby MacDonald is a gently eccentric charmer of a film. At its heart is a precariously balanced love triangle between Agnes, the daughter of the new French master; Winchester, sports star and handsome thicko; and Amberson (Alex Lawther, The End of the F***ing World, Black Mirror, The Imitation Game), the unpopular scholarship boy whose words connect the other two.