MEN

Cert 15

100 mins

BBFC advice: Contains strong gore, horror, sexual threat, language, suicide, domestic abuse

It's not often that I would appreciate a movie which is quite as bizarre as Alex Garland's Men but, in my view, this is weird in a good way.

The quality acting of Jessie Buckley and the amazing Rory Kinnear combined with the eeriness conjured by the director really grabbed me.

Indeed, I even accepted its very very strange finale.

"What was it all about?" asked Mrs W as the credits rolled. "Beats me, but I liked it," I replied.

Buckley plays Harper who has rented a luxury country cottage as she attempts to recover from the violent suicide of her husband (Paapa Essiedu).

She is greeted by her host (Rory Kinnear), a figure who reminded me of Harry Enfield's Tim-Nice-But-Dim and for whom nothing appears to be too much trouble,

But pretty soon she is encountering all sorts of oddballs who are also played by Kinnear.

These range from an injured naked man who doesn't speak, a misogynist vicar, a foul-mouthed schoolboy and a police officer.

There is a feel of the Whicker Man about Garland's film and Buckley's character becomes progressively more fearful of her surroundings and the people within them.

Meanwhile, to state that Kinnear has the opportunity to demonstrate his full range must be the understatement of the year,

The longer it goes on the more difficult Men is to explain right up until a finale which is completely off-the-wall.

What does it all mean? I'm afraid I have absolutely no idea but I shan't be forgetting it in a hurry.