My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Julian Kemp

Writers: Julian Kemp, Alain de Botton

Cinematographer: Dave Miller

Composers: Andy Blythe, Marten Joustra

Cast: Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Kelly Adams, Cécile Cassel, Jane March, Edith Bukovics, Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

A neurotic and (sort-of) suicidal young man (Patricks) recalls his last five relationships, from their meet-cute beginnings through their inevitable declines to their acrimonious terminations, with extra emphasis on his last girlfriend (Harris, charming as ever), as he struggles (and fails) to understand what love is, in Kemp’s witty and inventive if occasionally overly whimsical and not particularly emotionally involving Annie Hall like rom-com. Iain.Stott