Catherine Shoard 

Hello Carter review – a melancholy romp, but winningly played

Look past the dreariness and this comedy about a lovelorn schmuck is not without interest, writes Catherine Shoard
  
  

Charlie Cox in Hello Carter
Well played, if not scripted … Charlie Cox in Hello Carter Photograph: /PR

Winningly played and not without interest, this melancholy romp from first-time director Anthony Wilcox stars Charlie Cox as a myopic, lovelorn, homeless, unemployed upper-middle class schmuck who must rattle around London trying to win back his ex-girlfriend with the help of spunky secretary Jodie Whittaker. But the script persistently lets things down, and there’s something irredeemably dreary about both palette and scope.

 

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