On a bright, crisp day in late November 2019, Total Film is catching a train from Keighley station to travel through bucolic Yorkshire countryside, the fields painted with frost. As TF’s breath mists in the vintage train commissioned just for this journey on the Worth Valley Railway, actors Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook sit further down the carriage admiring the view and flirting, as writer/director Clio Barnard watches from behind the camera – smiling as it catches a moment of sunny loveliness inside and outside the train.
Those familiar with Barnard’s Bradford-set socio-realist output might be surprised to find the Otley-born filmmaker looking for lightness and love in her fourth film set in her homeland. Her debut The Arbor was an unflinching look at the racism, deprivation and alcoholism that plagued playwright Andrea Dunbar, The Selfish Giant charted the tragedy of two young boys driven to danger by poverty and lack of opportunity, Dark River explored PTSD and incest. Ali & Ava, the heartwarming story of an Asian landlord finding an unexpected connection with a White-Irish matriarch is as much a love letter to Brief Encounter and that compressed-time romance as it is to the former wool capital.
“I wanted to make a film that was a love story, and that showed what was beautiful about Bradford,” Barnard explains during a break in filming as we tuck into local curry. “I felt I hadn’t really seen that on the big screen before, and it felt important. I was inspired by Brief Encounter but it was set around the people in the train station café that the couple were in, rather than the couple themselves.”
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