This is the goofy Badger (Shaun Thomas), there with his mates he senses something of her loneliness and desperation to get sex out of the way. On one horrendously hungover morning on the balcony, Tara is aware of a young man on the next-door balcony looking at her. Tara, or Taz, and her mates Skye (Lara Peake) and Em (Enva Lewis) show up and get a room overlooking the pool in one of the resort hotels along Malia’s main street: at night pulsing with garish neon drunkenness and during the day eerily deserted, like the location for a gunfight in a western.

Manning Walker herself coolly manages the film’s own mood, drifting towards crisis and retreating from it. For her, the quest for sex means more than for the others. The film delivers an intriguingly sympathetic, complex and even mysterious performance from Mia McKenna-Bruce as the shyest of the trio: Tara, whose face in closeup registers subtly shifting moods.

F ull-on energy, likable performances and uncompromisingly daft jokes turbocharge this debut feature from British film-maker Molly Manning Walker, about three teenage girls up for the holiday of a lifetime in the party town of Malia in Crete, and trying not to think about the exam results which their parents could tactlessly text them at any moment.

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