Edinburgh Evening News

Four to watch this week

The Idea Of You (15, streaming from May 2 exclusivel­y on Prime Video)

- WITH STUART CHANDLER

Michael Showalter directs a contempora­ry romantic comedy across the age divide, adapted by the filmmaker and Jennifer Westfeldt from Robinne Lee’s novel of the same title.

Forty-year-old gallery owner Solene Marchand (Anne Hathaway) is divorced and fiercely devoted to her teenage daughter Izzy (Ella Rubin).

Ex-husband Daniel (Reid Scott) is supposed to be taking Izzy and her friends to Coachella music festival and has bought VIP tickets to impress the girls but he has to cancel at the last minute.

Solene steps in as chaperone. Backstage, Solene crosses paths with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the British member of boyband August Moon, who were once Izzy’s infatuatio­n.

The daughter has grown out of August Moon but Solene unexpected­ly takes a shine to Hayes.

The couple begin a whirlwind romance, which must weather a social media backlash when the group’s ardent fans inevitably discover Hayes is dating an older woman.

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz (Six episodes, streaming from May 2 exclusivel­y on Now)

Love conquers hatred in a sixpart adaptation of Heather Morris’s best-selling novel, which is based on the true story of Auschwitz survivor Lali Sokolov.

Six decades after the horrors of the Second World War, octogenari­an Lali (Harvey Keitel) confronts ghosts of his past and shares his story with aspiring writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey).

He looks back to 1942 when he was deported to Auschwitz as one of the Slovakian Jews targeted by the Nazis during the conflict.

Lali is assigned the role of tattooist and pens the inked identifica­tion numbers onto the arms of fellow prisoners.

He sparks romance with one inmate, Gita (Anna Prochniak), and the couple keep their love alive as horrors unfold around them, under the scrutinous glare of SS officer Baretzki (Jonas Nay).

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz premieres on Sky Atlantic and streams exclusivel­y on Now.

Goodbye Earth (12 episodes, streaming from April 26 exclusivel­y on Netflix)

Terror comes from the sky in a 12-part South Korean scifi drama based on the novel Shumatsu No Furu by Kotaro Isaka. Nasa announces an asteroid, named Dina, is heading straight for Earth and will impact the Korean Peninsula in 200 days. Anyone living in the predicted impact area will be killed. While some people wholeheart­edly believe the devastatin­g news and panic, others like middle school teacher Ms Jin (Ahn Eunjin) try to maintain calm for the sake of her students in Woongcheon City.

As the clock ticks down to Dina’s arrival, incarcerat­ed criminals escape from prison, cults exert a vicelike grip over followers and civilians search for safe havens from the blast.

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