‘The Inbetweeners’ Star Simon Bird on His Feature Debut as Director ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’

Gentle coming-of-age comedy-drama “Days of the Bagnold Summer,” which world premieres at Locarno Festival Wednesday, is the directorial feature debut of British actor Simon Bird, best known as the …

The film stars Earl Cave – Nick Cave’s son – as an angry teen, Daniel, spending a frustratingly dull summer in his suburban town with his lonely single mom, Sue, played by Monica Dolan. Rob Brydon, Alice Lowe and Tamsin Greig deliver deliciously witty cameos.

It was the tone of it, which is understated, observant, poignant and funny, and those are the qualities that I enjoy in the films that I watch. Yeah, I think so. For me the key was as well just making sure that the story was shared between the two of them. It’s a coming-of-age film but not just Daniel’s coming-of-age film, it is as much Sue’s as Daniel’s. And that is what’s brilliant and so original about the book – it is just as empathetic towards this struggling single mum as it is towards the teenage metalhead.

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