Following on from the kitchen-sink films of the Fifties and Sixties, both queerness and working-class life have tended to look bleak and depressing, writes Annie Lord. But Macdonald fills her first film with colour
, where miserable greys, blues and muddy beiges mirror the fatalistic trajectories of characters left with no hope of happiness. But right from the rainbow which bends past the concrete tower blocks during the opening titles,is bursting with colour. Yellow sunflowers twist through Leah’s plaited hair. Green and purple plants crawl out of the estate’s hanging baskets and flower beds.
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