Mark Kermode

She's on a student visa at Manchester, I think it's the uni, Manchester Uni, where she's finishing a psychology degree.

And there's a position on offer that would secure her status there.

But in order to get that position, she has to deliver an absolutely kick-ass dissertation as a sort of final part of what she's doing.

And so what she's doing a dissertation on is the proof that romantic love is a form of self-destructive madness.

It's like an evolutionary hangover.

And she finds a perfect, if unknowing, subject in Owen, who is played by Spike Fern, who was the Screen International Star of Tomorrow a couple of years ago.

So he's a working class lad.

He works at the college and he's desperately searching for

for an Emily that he met.

He met her at the bar where he was working and she was dancing and they kind of really got on and he knows her name is Emily, but he doesn't know anything else.

She gave him her phone number, but it looks like she missed out one number from the phone number.

So all he knows is Emily, hence finding Emily.

So he goes to the university and says, I'm trying to find this girl.

Here's a clip.

So he's convinced that the Emily that he met briefly is the one.

She, the different Emily, the one that's doing the psychology degree, is convinced that romantic love has basically driven him mad and therefore he's a perfect subject.

So she conspires to help him try and find his Emily by getting access to those email addresses of every Emily at the college, which is a breach of data, but also a breach of ethics because he doesn't know that she is writing a thesis on him.

So...

I mean, obviously the setup is vaguely preposterous, but it's a rom-com.

And the film's largely carried by the scrappy charm of its leads.