Film ‘Bonnie and Clive’ follows Covid road trip from London to Cornwall
A Guardian review describes the film “Bonnie and Clive” as a super-low-budget British comedy about three twentysomethings on a road trip to Cornwall at the start of one of the Covid lockdowns. The plot follows Bonnie, played by Eleanor May Blackburn, who has two days to reach her grandparents’ house in Cornwall from south London before lockdown begins. She meets homeless busker Clive, played by Michael Kodi Farrow, and offers to buy him a kebab, but her credit card is declined and she leaves without paying. The pair then take off in a retro 1990s camper van and pick up hitchhiker Wilco, played by James Jip, a social anthropology student who has run away from university. The film includes shots of tourist sites such as Stonehenge and Dartmoor, and a scene involving the trio pushing a dead body in a wheelchair around the Eden Project. The review notes the film is persistently quirky and that some performances have an over-acted, exaggerated style.
What’s reported
The film is a super-low-budget British comedy about a trio on a road trip to Cornwall at the start of one of the Covid lockdowns.
Bonnie (Eleanor May Blackburn) has two days to get to her grandparents’ house from south London.
She meets homeless busker Clive (Michael Kodi Farrow) and offers to buy him a kebab, but her credit card is declined and she leaves without paying.
They travel in a retro 1990s camper van and pick up hitchhiker Wilco (James Jip), a social anthropology student who fled university because of lockdown.
Scenes include Stonehenge, Dartmoor, and the Eden Project (pushing a dead body in a wheelchair).
The review describes the film as persistently, annoyingly quirky, with over-acted performances.
Open questions
No release date, director, or production details are mentioned in the article.
Key figures
Eleanor May Blackburn (actress, plays Bonnie)
Michael Kodi Farrow (actor, plays Clive)
James Jip (actor, plays Wilco)
Sources: The Guardian
