Film & Television

John Maguire on film: Raw and spiky melodrama charts a sad and strained love triangle

Compassionate cast are in top form in a story about vulnerable people trying to do the best in difficult circumstances

James Cosmo and Bríd Brennan in My Sailor, My Love: drama refuses to follow the formula, instead tracing its own careful and considerate path through often thorny material

Finnish director Klaus Härö makes his English-language debut with My Sailor, My Love, a surprisingly honest and involving story of lonely people finding romance in later life, set and shot on Achill Island. Don’t let the preponderance of woolly jumpers, cups of tea and sumptuous Atlantic seascapes fool you. This unexpectedly raw and spiky melodrama steadfastly refuses to follow the formula, instead tracing its own careful and considerate path through often thorny material.

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