Weekend

Weekend is a 2011 piece directed by Andrew Haigh. I would say the film is Romantic Drama featuring aspects of Social Realism. The film is based on homosexuality with the main protagonist being Russell a man in his late 30's who struggles to identify as gay. Although he is comfortable coming out to his friends, he prefers not to show his sexuality when in public. This is where it could be argued the film has elements of a 'coming of age' genre as by the end of his two day experience with Glen he ignores the fact he is in public and kisses him at the train station despite getting heckled. The Social Realism aspect throughout comes from the two men being of a middle social class with regular jobs and incomes. 

The film was independently made and featured Tom Cullen and Chris New as Russell and Glenn. I like how realistic the whole film was and although I thought it was slow at times it just followed the pace of a normal weekend opposed to being fast paced and unrealistic like Box Office hits tend to be. I liked the natural approach to filming it with intimate camera angles that let the audience feel they were apart of the conversation, especially as the film was dominated by dialouge throughout.