Nina Forever

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Nina Forever is a dark British comedy written and directed by Ben and Chris Blaine. It premiered at last year’s South by Southwest Film Festival and stars Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, Elizabeth Elvin, and David Troughton.

Holly wants to save Rob, has fallen in love with him. She is training to be a paramedic and works a dead end job in a supermarket where Rob is the only remarkable thing, lost and angry since the death of his girlfriend Nina. Drawn into a relationship, the first time they’re in bed together so is Nina. A tangled and bloody mess of broken limbs, she is very much dead but still here, still talking, still angry… However Holly doesn’t freak out and run – she is determined to be the one who heals Rob’s wounds. She can deal with the dead girl sharing their bed, their lives, their minds. If it’s what Rob needs, it’s what Holly will do, whatever the consequences…

“We wanted to make something that was fantastical and magical but true to our own experiences of loss and love and that urge to help people,” the brothers state. “We were also very keen to capture the quiet suburban English landscape that we grew up in, but place in the middle of it this explosion of craziness. We wanted to look at a bunch of emotions that don’t get much airing in public. The way you miss someone not because they were lovely but because you physically crave them.”

Nina Forever is rated 18A.