Brakes
- 2017 film
Dark comedy about relationship break-ups. Stars Mercedes Grower, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Oliver Maltman, Julia Davis and more.
Streaming rank this week: 7,724
Press clippings
Breaks review
I wanted to like this and it did start off fairly well but it quickly became tediously serious and shouty and I struggled to stick with it.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 17th February 2019Brakes review - inconsistent improv comedy
An impressive array of comic talent just about saves this multi-stranded story of London relationships.
Wendy Ide, The Guardian, 26th November 2017Film review: Brakes
Brakes might be set in London but it's much more like Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise than Truly, Madly Deeply.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th November 2017Brakes review
Brakes is full of so many bad ingredients, it deserves its own UN weapons inspection to be seen fit for humanity.
Chris Aitken, Short Com, 23rd November 2017Mercedes Grower interview
A few days ago we spoke to Mercedes about the film.
The Velvet Onion, 22nd November 2017Brakes review
It's an episodic piece (with a stellar cast) that cuts between nine couples breaking up with resignation or despair, angrily or comically. There's some unbearably honest writing, but also some rather less accomplished scenes that have the feel of improvised material.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 21st November 2017