Hide and Seek
Genre :
Year : 2014
Director : Joanna Coates
Screenplay : Daniel Metz, Joanna Coates
Starring : Josh O'Connor, Hannah Arterton, Rea Mole

Leah has a house in the country and states early on that it is her house, not her parents, and she can do what she likes with it.

Although she later answers a question saying that her parents would approve, they probably wouldn't. She invites another young girl and two young boys to share the isolated house. We don't know much about any previous relationships they have had.

It's a 'free love' community and they change partners, including same sex couplings. They also stage performance evenings amongst themselves, painting or playacting, and these can be revealing with some tensions coming to the surface.

It's all going well enough but getting a bit dull to watch when Simon, an ex-boyfriend of Charlotte's, turns up, clearly with the intention of winning Charlotte back. He is quite slow to realise what life they are leading and is horrified when Leah makes the first move in involving him.

Simon doesn't last long but things have changed just a bit after he's gone.

Well acted by the youngsters, an examination of an unconventional way of living life.



6 out of 10 -

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