They get together, and the resulting placidity and comfort settles them both. She has a bullying streak and mild pyromania issues – in moments of intimacy, she likes to singe a boy's leg hairs with a lighted match. This he does in order to impress Jordana, played by Yasmin Paige, who wears a faintly disturbing red coat (Ayoade may or may not have in mind Don't Look Now). The star is Craig Roberts, playing Oliver Tate, a duffelcoat-wearing loner at school who doesn't hesitate to join in the bullying of an overweight girl whom he had secretly got off with at last term's wild-west-themed disco. Watching it, I got exactly the same exhilarated feeling as with Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead: someone very talented at comedy had been allowed to take the helm of a British feature film and do precisely what he wanted to. But it is touching, sweet and, most importantly, very funny. For me, this somehow dissolves any potential lump in the throat. I never found Submarine moving exactly, despite the heavily signposted sadness and loneliness of every single major character it runs essentially in a comedy groove and is a knight's move away from any emotional reality. His film is shaped with flair, coolly allowing us to enjoy its unrealities and to savour the suspicion that a thirtysomething's sophistication and cinephilia have been sneakily backdated into a teenager's life to offset his emotional vulnerability: a protective nostalgia. For sheer technique, Ayoade can hardly be faulted, though introducing characters in freezeframe/voiceover is getting to be a cliche. Ayoade's film has absorbed the influences of Wes Anderson and Michel Gondry in its deadpan ironies and block capital sans-serif titles, but it's still really personal and confident. It's a dark coming-of-age comedy about a lovelorn teenage boy in 1980s Swansea, written and directed by Ayoade, adapted from a novel by Joe Dunthorne, and executive produced by Ben Stiller, who appears in a subliminal cameo.
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But nothing in his CV prepared me for the confidence and panache of the debut movie feature now being sprung on us.
Since then, he has written, directed and acted in TV shows including The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley and The IT Crowd, and also directed an Arctic Monkeys video.
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Richard Ayoade probably first came to public attention by appearing in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a spoof horror television series by Matthew Holness about a psychogeographically troubled Romford hospital built over the gates of hell.
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