Black Mountain Poets (film)
Black Mountain Poets is a 2015 British comedy film directed by Jamie Adams and starring Alice Lowe, Dolly Wells and Tom Cullen. Largely improvised from Adams’ plot outline, the film won the Student Critics’ Jury Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Synopsis Two sisters on-the-run for petty crimes hide out at a poetry retreat in the Black Mountains, Wales impersonating the world renowned poets whose car they stole. Cast Alice Lowe as Lisa Walker Dolly Wells as Clare Walker Tom Cullen as Richard Rosa Robson as Louise Cabaye Richard Elis as Gareth Laura Patch as Stacey Hannah Daniel as Alys Wilding Claire Cage as Terri Wilding Production The film marked the third in a trilogy of films by Newport Film School graduate Jamie Adams about modern love, after 2014’s Benny & Jolene and A Wonderful Christmas Time. The film was shot in five days on location in the Welsh Black Mountains. Release The film had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2015. The film had a limited UK cinema release in April 2016. Reception Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian said the film was “flimsy, funny…very silly and likeable” noting that “there are some big laughs,