As a larger statement about the ways in which outsiders and marginalised people are crushed by our world, it hits the nail right on the head.

Some wonderful visual flourishes and two brilliant central performances by Wright and Lawrence help to illuminate the Gibbons sisters’ headspaces. But without important context, true insight and understanding remains elusive.

It’s hard not to be moved by how smoothly Smoczyńska drifts away from the biopic elements of Andrea Seigel’s screenplay to instead inhabit the rich, internal world the Gibbons occupied.

[The film] is a stylistically lopsided but concise piece of cinema that marks a more-than-welcome return to the witty camp of [Smoczyńska’s] debut feature As a cinematically fresh plastic flower bouquet [it] has something to say to every type of audience