A festival favourite and partly crowdfunded, In From The Side is a simple portrayal of a love story that happens to be about two rugby players who play for a local team, one new to the B-team and the other an recovering-from-injury A-team-player and who fall for each other, in spite of being in existing relationships. The film seems to want to find differences between the two men to create points of drama, but essentially we are presented with two fairly ordinary pleasant blokes who try to negotiate their way through a possible relationship. The film is well-shot, it has a typical middle-class romantic drama sheen (penthouse views of the city at night, Christmas skiing holiday), the stereotypical rugby-world antics are inoffensive and the two lead performances from Alexander Lincoln and Alexander King are grounded, solid and likeable. Whilst the film is somewhat unnecessarily long, it does a good job in presenting the highs, lows and dilemmas facing these prospective partners.
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