After successfully premiering at last October’s London Film Festival, 90s-set comedy Our Ladies – about school friends at a Catholic girls’ school who go on a trip to Edinburgh to take part in a choir competition – now has a trailer, which is both raucous and moving.
Leader Finnoula (Abigail Lawrie), boy magnet Chell (Rona Morison), devious Kylah (Marli Siu), joker Manda (Sally Messham) and narrator Orla (Tallulah Grieve) can’t see a future in their small town beyond babies and jobs in Woolworths – and once in Edinburgh the temptations and delights of pubs and parties, not to mention men, take precedence over celestial singing.
The film is directed by Michael Caton-Jones and adapted by him from Alan Warner’s 80s novel The Sopranos (you can see why they didn’t call the film that).
It’s set in 1996 so expect a soundtrack that’ll be a religious experience itself for people my age. The trailer features Edwyn Collins’ A Girl Like You, and Big Country’s In A Big Country.
Our Ladies is out in the UK on 24 April 2020.
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