![]() On one horrendously hungover morning on the balcony, Tara is aware of a young man on the next-door balcony looking at her. Tara, or Taz, and her mates Skye (Lara Peake) and Em (Enva Lewis) show up and get a room overlooking the pool in one of the resort hotels along Malia’s main street: at night pulsing with garish neon drunkenness and during the day eerily deserted, like the location for a gunfight in a western. Manning Walker herself coolly manages the film’s own mood, drifting towards crisis and retreating from it. For her, the quest for sex means more than for the others. ![]() The film delivers an intriguingly sympathetic, complex and even mysterious performance from Mia McKenna-Bruce as the shyest of the trio: Tara, whose face in closeup registers subtly shifting moods. ![]() F ull-on energy, likable performances and uncompromisingly daft jokes turbocharge this debut feature from British film-maker Molly Manning Walker, about three teenage girls up for the holiday of a lifetime in the party town of Malia in Crete, and trying not to think about the exam results which their parents could tactlessly text them at any moment. ![]()
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