Adult Life Skills

Witty and moving, this is a low-budget Brit triumph that marks its director as a talent to watch.

Whittaker’s performance finds a balance between the tragic and comic scenarios her character experiences.

It is a kooky, touching, continually droll comedy drama that treads simultaneously familiar and unusual ground in its exploration of grieving for a sibling, more specifically a twin.

I found myself just not engaging with the lead characters and storyline as much as I like. In the end, I was just observing people dealing with a problem, while never able to be in the story as it played out.

While its protagonist is believably eccentric, the people surrounding her look more like transparent plot devices the more of them we meet.

For the most part, the film is similarly content to repeat the past, all the way through to its predictable liberating-feel-good wrap-up.

The result is 96 minutes of excessive eccentricity and unfocused gibberish that seems like 96 days at hard labor with no hope for commercial success. Color it gone.