'We were like movie stars – I used to imagine we didn’t walk, we glided – now all we do is stumble – it wasn’t supposed to be like this’

 

In fast moving 1960’s London, two strangers meet and fall in love with life and one another. Donal is a promising bookie’s clerk with a hip flask and a penchant for the racehorse Arkle, while Mona is a shy civil-servant. Social drinking is almost an occupational necessity and one that the young couple adopt with ready ease. An exciting whirlwind of discovery begins to spiral out of control as the bottle takes its grip in this bristling, life-affirming and terrifying love story.

 

McCafferty’s brilliant new version of J.P. Miller’s Days of Wine of Roses – famously filmed in 1962 with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick – breaths fresh vitality into the classic, exploring with wit and empathy an intensely moving love triangle between two people and the booze.

 

‘McCafferty rises to his finest writing’
THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Directed by Conall Morrison