Suki Waterhouse and Poppy Delevingne are a pair of unconvincing Welsh sisters dealing with terminal illness and creative blockages
The freewheeling improv style of Jamie Adams (who directed the daffy
comedy Black Mountain Poets) hits a wall in his new film about a family
Christmas in Wales. There are comedy scenes here that flatline and lightweight fake-feeling emotional moments. Model-actors Suki Waterhouse and Poppy Delevingne are the stars: they look pretty uncomfortable playing sisters visiting their folks for the holidays. Maybe it’s snarky to say, but with their gorgeous knitwear and expensive
London accents, it’s hard to buy either of them dunking a Bourbon into a cuppa.
Waterhouse is Iris, a flaky-quirky, beret-wearing film composer who has landed a massive gig writing the soundtrack for a big-time
Hollywood movie. The trouble is she’s creatively stuck, and anxious about her mum who is dying of an unspecified terminal illness (fading gently propped up on pillows, no fuss). Iris’s sister, Abigail (Delevingne), is back too, and the suggestion is that this is their last family Christmas together.