We didn’t realise it, but we probably all practiced social distancing as teenagers. Just look at the way Daniel (Earl Cave) shuffles along a good two metres in front of or behind mum Sue (Monica Dolan) in Simon Bird’s Days Of The Bagnold Summer.
Just like others of his age, he’s embarrassed to be seen with her: parents just aren’t cool, they don’t understand and they always, but always get everything wrong.
The set up for a coming of age story, then.But Bird, he of The InBetweeners and Friday Night Dinner, has given us something more in his first film as a director.
Mother and son are stuck together one summer – whether they like it or not – after holiday plans go out of the window, a scenario that unexpectedly mirrors current events.
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