Equally naturalistic is the drama’s documentary-style cinematography. Adeel Akhtar, left, and Claire Rushbrook in “Ali & Ava.” MUST CREDIT:Greenwich Entertainment/Avali Film.Īli and Ava are based on real people Barnard met while making earlier movies, and their characters were developed in collaboration with the actors. He’s first seen dancing to Bollywood music on a TV exercise show, but he reacts with fury when he finds his mother with Ali. Her son Callum (Shaun Thomas, who appeared in Barnard’s 2013 “The Selfish Giant”) is a major impediment to the potential romance. Ava’s physically abusive husband is dead, although she has a home full of kids and grandkids. Ali shares a house with his estranged wife, Runa (Ellora Torchia), but she’s planning to move out. They bond over their shared affection for the little girl, a member of Bradford’s large Slovakian community.īoth Ali and Ava are more or less single. The two meet when Ali brings Sofia (Ariana Bodorova), the daughter of two of his tenants, to the school where Ava works. Born in Britain to Irish parents, Ava (Claire Rushbrook) is a financially strapped classroom assistant who has four children and five grandchildren. Of South Asian descent, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a former DJ with vague musical ambitions and a day job managing the modest houses his family rents out. She’s a little bit country and he’s a little bit rock-and-roll, and those musical tastes are hardly the only things that separate the title characters of “Ali & Ava.” British writer-director Clio Barnard’s unromanticized romantic drama observes the tentative relationship of two people who have little in common save loneliness and their hometown: Bradford, the ethnically diverse West Yorkshire city where Barnard has set all her films. Center from left, Adeel Akhtar, Ariana Bodorova and Claire Rushbrook in “Ali & Ava.” MUST CREDIT: Greenwich Entertainment/Avali Film.

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