Low budget film that was shot a couple of years ago, but saw a delayed release. It says much about a film where the most memorable moment is a scene with a guy who sits on the sofa and says nothing.Ĭoming-of-age romance-drama from Britain. Be that as it may, it did make the film somewhat pointless. Perhaps that was the point of the story, that they were all so vacuous that Jack was better off where he had started, than with meeting them at all. At the end of the films running time I felt I barely knew any of the characters any better than I did when the film had started apart from Jack, whose own journey seems to have taken him no where. The script lacked any real characterisation (Perhaps these kids are just that bland, and that was the point?) and I just really wasn't interested in the petty dilemmas of these spoilt rich kids.
Adequate casting in terms of the parents is provided by stalwart actors such as Pip Torrens and Geraldine Sommerville, but the rest of the cast find it hard to make their mark. It's only real saving grace is Poulter who plays the stumbling Jack with an appropriate level of blind confusion. Coming of age dramas and films about first young loves can be engaging but sadly this film isn't in that category. The script is almost entirely devoid of any real drama save for a couple of heated rows with the parents and his best friend. Some arguments are had and some friendships are tested and that's about it really. Jack has an interest in old school photography, befriends some sisters who seem to own a 'come and go as you please' mansion while their parents are away and meets an assortment of odd other characters. It's all very pastel colours and warm tones. Through meeting her he goes clubbing to secret hedonistic places where young posh kids go, who don't work, have threesomes and do drugs. Jack meets Evelyn, a French girl visiting London, whom for reasons unknown strings Jack along even though she has an on/off boyfriend who can only be some sort of pimp / drug dealer though what he does is never clearly explained. Poulter plays Jack, born of middle class Nottinghill parents who plan for him to take an internship with a friends law firm as soon as he is back from taking a gap year of travelling with his friend Tom. I watched this because I am big fan of Will Poulter, an extremely naturally gifted actor & he so he is here but struggles with the material he is given. A good natural performance from Will Poulter is the only recommendation in this empty story. Refreshing as it might be to see a different perspective of Londoners (the white middle class type.) There is little drama and little that happens in this coming of age tale where Jack's loyalties with his friends are tested.
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This turn of events is caused by meeting French free spirited artist Evelyn (Alma Jodorowsky) who lives in a rundown Hackney townhouse with other alternative arty types such as Viola (Cara Delevingne) and Evelyn also has an on/off boyfriend who also might be a drug dealer.
What he does engage in is a bohemian lifestyle partying in London, taking drugs and having sex and falling out with his friends, because now he does not want to go travelling. Like a lot of teenagers he is unsure of what he wants to do with his life but he certainly does not want to do an internship in a law firm that his father has arranged. Will Poulter plays college student Jack taking a gap year, do some work and earn money to travel to south America with his friends. What better contrast to those urban gritty dramas about young Londoners set in the tower blocks than Kids in Love which is about posh young Londoners living in Notting Hill or similar. That said, the London locations are fun, and although things became a little predictable in the last twenty minutes (as these sorts of films generally do) I must confess that I was left with a smile on my face.
Yes, she is attractive, but I did not feel that she exuded the "je ne sais quoi" (it's okay, Evelyn is French) that the script demanded. However, I am not so sure about Alma Jadorowsky as the ethereal Evelyn. I guess, at its heart, Kids is basically a coming of age movie, but it has a lot of heart, and I genuinely cared that things would work out for Jack. He really is a credible actor these days, and I really enjoyed his performance in Kids In Love.
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However, it is Will Poulter as the protagonist, Jack, that elevates the movie above the mediocre. The acting is solid, the script is pretty good and the characters, whilst not entirely likable, are developed reasonably well. And I thought that was rather unfair, so here I go. But nobody else had seen fit to review it. Having watched Kids In Love last night, and quite enjoyed it, I thought I would log onto IMDb and see what others thought of it.
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