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The Party’s Just Beginning review – dark days in the depths of grief

Karen Gillan is writer, director and star of this compelling tale of a hedonistic young woman dealing with the death of a friend

The actor Karen Gillan makes her writer-director debut with a downbeat, interesting-but-flawed drama set in her hometown of Inverness, and shot on a tiny budget – the kind of money they probably spent on almond milk lattes making the Avengers blockbusters in which she played cyborg Nebula.

Her character here is familiar from countless millennial indie movies: a funny, smart twentysomething who can’t pull her life together, boozing too much, sleeping with the wrong guys, waking up still wearing her mascara. But a gravitational downwards pull tugs at the film, though I wasn’t convinced it has the emotional depth for the dark places Gillan wants to take it.

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