The Triangle of Sadness and Babygirl actor has made a strong, singular and sometimes surrealist first film behind the camera, with a superb central turn from Frank DillaneHarris Dickinson makes a terrifically impressive debut here as a writer-director with this smart, thoughtful, compassionate picture about homelessness. It is engaging and sympathetically acted and layered with genuinely funny moments, mysterious and hallucinatory setpiece sequences, and is challengingly incorrect thoughts about the haves who fear the contagious risk of coming into contact with the have-nots.Frank Dillane is Mike, a guy who has spent five years living on the streets in London: begging, stealing, eating at charity food trucks. Dillane’s performance shows Mike’s nervy, twitchy, live wire mannerisms have been cultivated over what feels like a lifetime of abandonment: he has a kind of suppressed pleading quality as he asks passers by for the “spare change” that fewer people carry in these post-covid times. His open smile has a learned survivalist determination only; what he has is not exactly charm, he is slippery and unreliable, but also intelligent and heartbreakingly vulnerable. Continue reading...