"No?"
"Waiting for someone to die."
Set in the fortnight leading up to Christmas Day, this low-key, intimate British drama follows a fragmented family brought together by the final days of their terminally-ill mother. The eclectic bunch of siblings, played by an exceptional cast of Kate Winslet, Johnny Flynn, Toni Collette and Andrea Riseborough, all perform their own uncomfortable rivalries, personal inadequacies and differing domestic dramas with sensitivity and honesty, alongside gloriously touching performances from Helen Mirren and Timothy Spall as their elderly parents and a really beautifully-judged turn by Fisayo Akinade as the gentle ward nurse. With an impressive first screenplay from Winslet's son Joe Anders, and quiet, controlled direction from Winslet herself, Goodbye June is often painful and very emotional to watch but it delivers very well indeed.
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