The story that David weaves around a song by Eels will break hearts, while Lea's bid to try and get her iPhone selections on the car stereo is played out in thousands of family cars every day.Įverything about Long Way Back screams Cornish talent - the piano soundtrack is by Kernow-based composer and choir leader Matthew Thomason while the intimate Randy Newman-meets-early-Bowie songs of Cornwall's Luke Toms pepper the film. Music plays a big part in the film, whether it's the opening scene with David boring a love interest (Kate Edney) with Bowie chat, Lea criticising her dad's choice of driving music (Cornwall's own noise-meisters Mildred Maude), begrudgingly admitting to liking the alt sounds of Pavement or David's astonishment that she's never heard of Yo La Tengo. The poster for new Cornish film Long Way Back His sensitive features and pleading eyes are perfect as the pained David, while Endean has that teen steeliness, which won plaudits in Bait. Sturrock - who many people will know from his iconic portrayal of Tristan in Kneehigh's high water mark, Tristan & Yseult - has never been better. It's a raw and naturalistic film powered by its leads. The famous location plays a pivotal role. It's also worth seeing if you're a fan of the iconic Nearly Home Trees. Believe me, fathers of teenage daughters will never be the same after watching Long Way Back. You just have to see this extraordinary film, which is shot beautifully, hypnotically acted and is both laugh out loud funny and emotionally devastating. It's a massive spoiler if I even get close to revealing it. However, there's a lot more to it than that and a gut-wrenching scene puts a whole other spin on events. Padstow's Tristan Sturrock - well known to TV audiences for his role in Poldark - stars in Long Way BackĪs they make the long journey home, David tries to make up for a lifetime of disappointments and his own shortcomings as father and daughter attempt to reconnect via musical arguments, drunken pitstops and a visit to David's foster mum, played by renowned Cornish actress Susan Penhaligon. Due to a situation beyond his control, his estranged daughter is thrown back into his life - she’s leaving university under tragic circumstances and David is the only person who can make the trip and drive her home to Cornwall. Reluctant father David (played by Poldark's Tristan Sturrock) has spent his life running away: from his foster home, from responsibilities, from his marriage and from his daughter, Lea ( Truro actress Chloe Endean, who also wowed in Bait). And don't expect some souped-up drag racing road movie as this one's set in an old banger of a Saab (apologies to producer Simon Harvey whose family car it is), and the main characters are less comedic buddies on the run and more an estranged father and teenage daughter, whose twain is destined to never meet. Twenty-three locations in the Duchy double up as various roadsides, cafes, lay-bys and rural houses in Wales. It's that rare thing, a road movie set in the UK. Read more: Cornish director films his own battle with Parkinson’s disease in powerful short movie The film - which debuted at Manchester Film Festival in March - was shot on location in Cornwall over 18 days in the summer of 2019 with its original release date delayed due to Covid. Long Way Back is a road movie with a difference which has already proved a hit at film festivals.Ĭornish director and writer Brett Harvey has long promised great things with his vibrant and darkly humorous movies, Weekend Retreat and Brown Willy, but with Long Way Back he has produced a classic, which deserves to be celebrated just as much as Cornwall's big screen hit and BAFTA winner Bait. A Cornish film, which received a rapturous response from audiences when it premiered in April, will now get a wider screening in cinemas across Cornwall and further afield.
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