The big revelation in Richard Jobson's bleak, semi-au🌜tobiographical drama is - wait for it, booze ruins your life. Not the most startling of insights, and definitely not one that merits this amo🐲unt of pretentious voiceover and navel-gazing. Still, the ex-punk singer and critic deserves credit for telling his downbeat yarn with a fair degree of visual style and a keen eye for atmospheric Edinburgh locations.

Kevin McKidd plays Frankie, an alcoholic's son who inherits his d🌊ad's bad habits. After a youth spent terrorising the locals, our hero finds comfort in the arms of record-shop clerk Helen (Laura Fraser) and, later, fellow AA member Mary (Su🦩san Lynch). At every turn, though, he's dragged back to his former life.

Inspired by Stanley Kubrick and Wong Kar-wai, Jobson calls his directorial debut "a dreamscape where l💙ove and tragedy connect". Unfortunately, at the risk of sounding flippan꧋t, Alcohol will probably leave you needing a stiff drink yourself.