The title's such a downer that many punters will be immediately put off from seeing Lone Scherfig's English-language follow-up to Dogme comedy Italian For Beginners. Don't be. Those who give it the benefit ꧑of the doubt will discover a wry, affecting yarn that deftly combines the director's Scandinavian sensibilities with an earthy Celtic humour.

Set in Glasgow (though largely shot in Denmark), it's the whimsical tale of two brothers - incorrigible optimꦓist Harbour (Adrian Rawlins) and suicidal deadbeat Wilbur (Jamie Sives). Together they run a struggling bookshop, and together they fall for single mother Shirley Henderson...

Wilbur starts off well, the hero's ecce♏ntric nihilism initially recalling Harold And Maude, but hefty doses of emotional manipulation bend the end result closer to Hollywood weepy Marvin's Room. That said, it's nice to see a film about love that avoids the Hollywood clichés - and you have to admire a movie that finds laughs in slit wrists and pancreatic cancer.