It’s a stereotype to say a city becomes a character in a particular movie or series. But stereotypes, of a sort, are top of the agenda of David Ireland’s The Lovers . This romantic comedy aims to do for the Northern Ireland capital what Love, Actually did for picture-postcard London., piles on the cliches. But he makes them fresh and sometimes delightful. Róisín Gallagher plays Janet, a woman in her late 30s stuck in a dead-end job and wrestling depressive thoughts.
She crosses paths, out of the blue, with buccaneering Brit Seamus , a younger Andrew Marr type over from London to make a spot of “regional” telly.Róisín Gallagher: I grew up in a world where I heard people say, ‘he’s a Protestant but he’s very nice’Actually, Seamus isn’t all as British as he might initially appear. He’s got the accent: he says “Ireland” without coming within whistling distance of a letter “r”.
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