Jessie Buckley gives a great, gutsy performance as an ex-con who's more interested in a Country singing career in Nashville than looking after her children. She was BAFTA nominated.
One missed trick - to convince the Judge she's a serious singer, worthy of being released from curfew - she could have sung, then and there.
Good screenplay, by Nicole Taylor.
Buckley was in Chernobyl, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Misbehaviour (Miss World protests), The Courier (Cuban Missile Crisis), Dolittle, Judy, The Woman in White, The Last Post, Beast, Taboo, War and Peace (also directed by Harper), The Tempest and Endeavour ('Trove').
With her, displaying a great Glaswegian accent, Julie Walters. With Sophie Okenado, James Harkness, Bob Harris, Jamie Sives, Craig Parkinson, Daisy Littlefield (daughter).
Q thinks she should be in a Woody Allen. She's actually Irish. Both her and Walters' accents are terrific (well, to my ear, anyway).
Good ph. George Steel (also War & Peace, Peaky Blinders, The Aeronauts, The Honorable Woman), written by Nicole Taylor.
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