Set in present-day London, Duncan (Patricks) is writing his suicide note, his narration warning us, "We're all just playing out scenes in films... except all ours have depressing endings". And so he takes us through his last five relationships, with the likes of Naomie Harris' cheating Gemma, Cecile Cassel's incompatible Rhona, Kelly Adams' Wendy, Jane March's Olive and Edit Bukovics' Natalie, none of them seemingly quite up to Duncan's standards.
THE VERDICT:
Or is it vice versa? Long before the end of this dull film, you really don't care what happens to this loveless git. Coming across as a pretentious High Fidelity without the laughs, this Brit flick may be based on Alain de Botton's heavyweight novel Essays In Love but it's a distinctly lightweight affair. Which only makes director Julian Kemp's claim that his main inspiration is Orson Welles' F For Fake all the more delicious.
RATING: 1/5
Review By Paul Byrne