[FILM]
FRESH
Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) always made sure to get her five a day.
★★★★
OUT 18 MARCH CERT TBC / 114 MINS
DIRECTOR Mimi Cave
CAST Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi
PLOT Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is thoroughly disenchanted with the dating scene when she meets charming stranger Steve (Sebastian Stan) in a supermarket. After agreeing to go away with him for the weekend, despite being warned against it by friend Mollie (Jojo T. Gibbs), she’s shocked to discover Steve has some unusual appetites.
“HOPEFULLY IT WILL make for a good story”, Noa (Edgar-Jones) tells best friend Mollie (Gibbs), as she psychs herself up for another first date full of awkward small talk, casual misogyny and ick-inducing sartorial choices. It’s a required approach in the world of modern dating, where fearing for your safety feels as common as falling in love, and sometimes all you can hope for is an awful experience that makes for an entertaining anecdote. That’s certainly what Noa gets when she falls for smooth-talking, self-deprecating, nonsocial-media-using surgeon Steve (Stan), finding herself — to use Mollie’s word — “dickmatised” into going on a surprise weekend trip with him after only a couple of dates, and finding out what he really means when he says: “I don’t eat animals”.