It's plain to see why Daniel Craig wanted to make this unusual British drama. As fading, drug-addicted movie star Joe Scot, he is the very picture of quiet intensity, reflecting on tragic events in his youth that still reverberate. Viewed through the lens of writer/director Baillie Walsh (whose previous credits include music videos for Massive Attack and INXS), it's a polished and confident growing-pains story with all the windswept, salty atmosphere of the British seaside. However, the languid pace can be frustrating: instead of weaving past and present together, Walsh uses Craig to bookend one very long flashback. Thankfully, actor Harry Eden as the younger Scot has the charisma to keep you watching, and elicits sympathy even as he ditches his girlfriend for cheap thrills with a Mrs Robinson-like neighbour (Jodhi May). Not a typical rite-of-passage tale, then, but patient viewers will find that it does linger in the memory.

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.