A dad's Richard Vanstone 65th birthday gathering is the conventional backdrop for Painted Angels director Jon Sande🍰rs’ unconventionally realised third feature.

Sanders makes Mike Leigh look profligate but his bare-budget, semi-improv ensemble piece stacks up dramatic riches over its 24-hour timespan: a 40-year marriage cru𝓰mbles, an ageing lothario 🎃cracks up...