Summer (2008)

Highly Recommended

UK/Germany

Feature Film

Director: Kenneth Glenaan

Writer: Hugh Ellis

Cinematographer: Tony Slater-Ling

Composer: Stephen McKeon

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake, Michael Socha, Sean Kelly, Joe Doherty, Joanna Tulej, Matthew Workman, Christopher Russell, Bethan Davies

A weather-beaten bloke in a small Derbyshire town, who acts as carer for his wheelchair bound friend who is dying of cirrhosis of the liver, experiences strong memories of his childhood and adolescence, remembering the good and the bad times and the girl that got away, in Glenaan’s overwhelmingly beautiful and achingly sad examination of friendship, educational failings, and alcoholism. Iain.Stott