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Film

An extraordinary debut: Make Up reviewed

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

Make Up

15, Curzon Home Cinema, and selected cinemas

Make Up is the first full-length film from writer–director Claire Oakley, set in an out-of-season holiday park on the Cornish coast where the wind blows, waves crash, rain lashes and gulls screech so you know it’s not a rom-com (foxes shriek in the night too). But while it’s easy to say what it isn’t, it’s harder to say what it is.

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