HOPE GAP ★★

(Cert 12A, 101mins) In cinemas now

IN LAST year’s Marriage Story, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson made a car crash divorce horribly compelling.

Sadly, it’s very easy to look away in this stagey break-up movie starring

Bill Nighy and Annette Bening. She is loud, needy Grace and he is reserved, serious Edward. For the past 29 years they’ve lived together in Seaford on the south coast of England.

An opening scene sketches a life that has settled into a series of oft-repeated rows concerning Edward’s inability to express his