Love Me Till Monday

There are flashes of talent in this low-budget British feature about a young woman, Becky (Georgia Maguire), stumbling through life, love and work in Reading. ‘Love Me Till Monday’ was conceived and made by a collective of graduates who hired experienced TV director Justin Hardy to tell this story of drunken nights, office politics and stalled romance. It’s a shaky effort, tonally awkward, with far too much reliance on sappy songs, the main character looking wistful and distracting symbolic diversions such as Becky’s attachment to the veg and flowers on her allotment. The cast are a mixed bag, their inexperience not helped by some bum lines. But Maguire has a compelling presence, despite the limitations of a script that insists her character’s search for a man is her only goal in life.