A Long Way Down (2014 Pascal Chaumeil)

Parisien director Chaumeil made some of the episodes of Spiral season 1, previously to that was a second unit director for Besson (Leon and The Fifth Element) - died sadly at 54 in 2015 - Heartbreaker / L'arnacoueur (2010) is a highly rated romcom.

Nick Hornby's highly fanciful tale - screenwritten by Jack Thorne - has a group of would-be suicides meeting atop a tall building one night...  I like Pierce Brosnan - he's not afraid to send himself up. Toni Collette is a real character actor talent, always great. But Imogen Poots is terrific here, so full of energy. (She's doing all right, isn't she, having appeared in work by Cameron Crowe, Peter Bogdanovich and Terence Malick already!) Aaron Paul is the fourth member of the quartet. Sam Neill also good value as Imogen's dad, and Rosamund Pike all but steals the film in a cameo as a bitchy TV presenter.

Music is by Dario Marienelli, handsome photography by Ben Davis (just BAFTA nominated for 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), edited by Barney Pilling.

Tuppence Middleton and Aaron Paul