It's a slow-burning movie. A nice character-driven plot movie about a lonely postman who loses his job and his pride in playing football for a local non-league team when a marquee signing takes his place and banishes him to the bench!
During this period he finds love and a relationship but she is not 100% honest with him as she is holding someone else's baby. There is great romantic tension in the film.
During this movie he discovers his father's previous life as a musician and a bandleader when finding his old musical instruments. He asks a local nun if she can find out more information on his father's band online in the parish database (it's just an internet search but he is naive to technology).
As luck would have it his grandfather's band are still playing gigs. His father is too ill to travel so he goes by himself to see them play. He connects further with the band to discover his grandfather's 'genius' after an interview with their older member after a show.
There is some nice romantic touches to this movie and it's a very slow film. It's not fast-paced or flashy and it doesn't have to be. It has some great realistic sequences of non-league football and a greedy and over-aspirational owner.
It's really refreshing to have football portrayed properly in a movie. I like the Arsenal hat as it a shout out to Arsenal's Polish players and I am an Arsenal fan.
In a nutshell this is a nice slow observational movie about life and greed and frailty and looking after our own and finding out family surprises that you didn't know about.
The film is a refreshing change from so many over-budgeted CGI movies these days. I liked it. 7/10, Amazon Prime.
