The film, which is written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams, delves into the UK’s loneliness epidemic, focusing on a woman (Andrea Riseborough) who starts to look out for her elderly neighbour (Blethyn) after being disgusted with the state of her care, with the pair soon forming an unlikely friendship.
She explained: “I remember a time when you’d look up the road for the postman to come, you know, you’d get handwritten letters from your friends and family. Then that went out the window and you got a phone call. Then it’s emails. Then it’s a text. Now it’s emoticons. People get a thumbs-up [on a mobile phone] as a response to a question. What’s that supposed to mean?
“At least when letters stopped, there was the telephone, you could have a conversation. But now it’s all this, and elderly people don’t really know how all that works.”
Asked about the cosy crime trend sweeping Britain, from The Thursday Murder Club to Murder Before Evensong, Blethyn said: "It’s like a good anaesthetic, when you can’t get to sleep at night. I’m being facetious, but I don’t find it edifying. It’s not taxing enough.”
Elsewhere, Blethyn will be seen next year in Channel 4's new adaptation of A Woman of Substance, alongside House of Guinness's Jessica Reynolds.
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