by Mark Murton

Starring: Sydney and Dave

Director: Simon Anstell

Cat Out Of The Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film.

Synopsis: Benjamin (Colin Morgan), a promising young film-maker, is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance with a French musician named Noah (Phénix Brossard) and the upcoming premiere of his second feature.

Featured Feline: Benjamin arrives home and is greeted by his torbie cat.

To quell his anxiety about his film, Benjamin pigs-out on ice-cream . . .

. . . leading to him being violently sick as the cat looks on inscrutably.

Finding an immediate mutual attraction with Noah, Benjamin invites him back to his place where he introduces him to the cat.

They spend the night together under the watchful eye of the feline.

In the morning the cat is sitting on the arm of the sofa.

Much later, having split up with Noah, Benjamin returns to the flat as his cat waits inside the door.

Miserable, Benjamin gets high on magic mushrooms and is first startled by the cat approaching him . . .

… and then seeming to talk to him, questioning “Who are you?”

The next morning, Benjamin is asleep in bed with, in its last appearance in the film, the cat beside him.

The film features cat actors Sydney and Dave sharing the role of the unnamed torbie. The animal handler was Charlotte Wilde.

Final Mewsings: Cats are happy to leave existential angst to humans.

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