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Cannes Review: Clio Barnard’s ‘Ali & Ava’
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deadline.comClio Barnard returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the British drama Ali & Ava. While billed as a romance, the Directors’ Fortnight entry doesn’t take the path of a traditional idealized love story, instead exploring the connection between a new couple within Barnard’s social realist world.
Based on locals that she encountered while filming The Arbor (2010) and The Selfish Giant (2013) in Bradford, it stars Claire Rushbrook (Secrets & Lies) as Ava and Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions) as Ali.
Far from stereotypes, these characters have the power to surprise. Ava is more than a busy working class mother with a tragic past: she has academic achievements, ambitions and a hopeful spirit that Ali shares.
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