Insufferable quirks and tone-deaf tropes undermine the social concerns of this wannabe New Wave love story
Here is a French New Wave pastiche that, like many others, emulates the style but retains none of the charm. The Drifters tries hard to blend the aesthetics of those 1960s classics with pressing issues of migration and racism. Alas, the poorly sketched characters render the film’s social concerns superficial at best and tone-deaf at worst.
The Drifters follows a whirlwind romance between Fanny (Lucie Bourdeu), a French waitress, and Kofi (Jonathan Ajayi), an undocumented Senegalese migrant. After a meet-cute in an English class in London, Kofi sweeps Fanny away on a half romantic, half literal getaway trip to the seaside. Kofi has committed a robbery in exchange for an Irish passport – a better option than a British one in a post-Brexit world – and he is now on the run from both his...
Here is a French New Wave pastiche that, like many others, emulates the style but retains none of the charm. The Drifters tries hard to blend the aesthetics of those 1960s classics with pressing issues of migration and racism. Alas, the poorly sketched characters render the film’s social concerns superficial at best and tone-deaf at worst.
The Drifters follows a whirlwind romance between Fanny (Lucie Bourdeu), a French waitress, and Kofi (Jonathan Ajayi), an undocumented Senegalese migrant. After a meet-cute in an English class in London, Kofi sweeps Fanny away on a half romantic, half literal getaway trip to the seaside. Kofi has committed a robbery in exchange for an Irish passport – a better option than a British one in a post-Brexit world – and he is now on the run from both his...
- 3/22/2021
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
‘The Drifters’ Lands Distribution
Exclusive: Starcross Entertainment’s latest feature The Drifters has been boarded for international sales by Media Luna and UK distribution by Central City Media. The film will have a virtual cinema release on April 3 and will be on demand from April 5. Streamer Urbanflix will release in the U.S.. The movie had its world premiere at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival. It is written and directed by Benjamin Bond and stars Lucie Bourdeu and Jonathan Ajayi in a love story about identity and place in a post-Brexit United Kingdom. Iona Sweeney produced. Executive producers include Andy Brunskill, Elinor Day, Paul Ashton, Evan Leighton-Davis, Ben Thompson and Patrick Milling-Smith.
Tom Felton To Host BIFAs
Former Harry Potter star Tom Felton will host this year’s British Independent Film Awards virtual ceremony, which will take place on February 18 with a live-streamed event from Wales, where the actor...
Exclusive: Starcross Entertainment’s latest feature The Drifters has been boarded for international sales by Media Luna and UK distribution by Central City Media. The film will have a virtual cinema release on April 3 and will be on demand from April 5. Streamer Urbanflix will release in the U.S.. The movie had its world premiere at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival. It is written and directed by Benjamin Bond and stars Lucie Bourdeu and Jonathan Ajayi in a love story about identity and place in a post-Brexit United Kingdom. Iona Sweeney produced. Executive producers include Andy Brunskill, Elinor Day, Paul Ashton, Evan Leighton-Davis, Ben Thompson and Patrick Milling-Smith.
Tom Felton To Host BIFAs
Former Harry Potter star Tom Felton will host this year’s British Independent Film Awards virtual ceremony, which will take place on February 18 with a live-streamed event from Wales, where the actor...
- 2/1/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The film was backed by the BFI and Creative England.
Filming has wrapped in the UK on Ben Bond’s post-Brexit love story The Drifters, which is backed by Creative England and the BFI.
A quartet of rising stars head the cast: Lucie Bourdeu (Kings For A Day), Jonathan Ajayi (known for the stage play revival of Brothers Size by Moonlight’s Tarell Alvin McCraney), Tom Sweet (Childhood Of A Leader) and Ariyon Bakare (Star Wars: Rogue One).
The Drifters follows Kofi, an illegal African migrant, and Fanny, a French waitress, who both find themselves homeless.
The film is produced...
Filming has wrapped in the UK on Ben Bond’s post-Brexit love story The Drifters, which is backed by Creative England and the BFI.
A quartet of rising stars head the cast: Lucie Bourdeu (Kings For A Day), Jonathan Ajayi (known for the stage play revival of Brothers Size by Moonlight’s Tarell Alvin McCraney), Tom Sweet (Childhood Of A Leader) and Ariyon Bakare (Star Wars: Rogue One).
The Drifters follows Kofi, an illegal African migrant, and Fanny, a French waitress, who both find themselves homeless.
The film is produced...
- 7/19/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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