Scarborough

2019, 1080hd

Scarborough is a drama where two couples check into a hotel for a weekend away in Scarborough, both featuring a teacher and a 16 year-old student. Liz (Jodhi May) checks into her room joined by younger lover Daz (Jordan Bolger) where she attempts to tell him something that will affect their relationship. Meanwhile, Aiden (Edward Hogg) checks in with the younger Beth (Jessica Barden) who is pressuring him to leave his girlfriend so they can be together. In the beginning the relationships mirror one another closely but as the weekend unfolds, the differences begin to come clear when both relationships must come to terms with a pregnancy. The two teacher's unseen partners will also play a part in the direction the relationships go. Can the taboo relationships survive the weekend and their resultant pregnancies?

OK look at two similar relationships that might be related to one another as a tangled web of not-so-much lies as half-truths become unravelled over the weekend. The movie ignores how to two relationships began which doesn't give an emotional hook on either relationship but how the relationships are related is the fascinating part of the movie that I'm still trying to figure out conclusively. Interesting but not really a revelatory movie about the complexities of such relationships.

Jessica Barden film clip

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Jodhi May film clip (capture below)