hat’s amore

OUT 24 SEPTEMBER CINEMAS

With her bucket hat, tinted shades and baggily asexual attire, 17-year-old AJ (Nell Barlow) is a picture of teenage disaffection in Marley Morrison’s appealing debut feature, a product of the same Film London-backed Microwave scheme that gave and Dragged along with single mum Tina (Jo Hartley) and the rest of her brood to a drab resort in Dorset, this sullen misfit could scarcely feel more out of place in a dead-end destination where the weather is as grotty as the caravans, and the nightly cabaret belongs to a different century.