Reinventing Marvin

Fontaine's screenplay has astute things to say about authenticity and artifice, while Oldfield's biggest achievement may be holding his own opposite the mighty Isabelle Huppert, who has a super-cameo as herself.

Messily structured, self-conscious and preposterous, buried within its own inelegant framing device.

For anyone who's read Edouard Louis's 2014 novel The End of Eddy, a gut-wrenching account of growing up poor and gay in rural France, Reinventing Marvin will feel like a botched job.

Narratively this film breaks no new ground, but it is executed well and hinges around a great performance from breakthrough actor Finnegan Oldfield.