ONE OF A KIND OF LOVE

Canada, 2021, 90 minutes, Colour.

Jocelyn Hudon, Jake Manley, Daniela Sandiford, Raphael Grosz-Harvey, Alain Goulem.

Directed by Philippe Lupien.

In making a film for an adult audience you can’t get more G-rated than this. Its plot and characters are niceness personified. The focus is on a working class young woman, Kyra, played by Jocelyn Hudon. She is a manager at a restaurant but also makes jewellery from scraps and what she finds as a pastime, hoping it will become her work and that she finds space for a store on the main street. Her father works in a garage – the nicest father you could find.

The other central character is the son of the wealthy family who owns the country club in the town, Ryan, played by Jake Manley. He has gone away to study, has an MBA, is talented at giving advice on improving companies, is in line for promotion to London. He has returned home, has clashed with Kyra in the past – but, they smart, they talk, they work with each other, he helps her father with his accounts, he is wanting the shopfront that Kyra wants and can’t tell her, is able to advise his father to install the wellness club that he is promoting into the country club.

There is also a competition for jewellery design, Ryan encouraging Kyra to enter, giving her his grandmother’s old costume jewellery, her creating a jewellery piece for his mother’s birthday, other ladies in the house making bookings…

There is also the best friend tennis coach from school days as Well Is the coach’s girlfriend who is the confidante of Kyra. Ryan’s parents are very wealthy, upper social class – but presented favourably as well.

Some moments of triumph with the winning of the competition. Some moments of drama because of the shopfront. But, we know that all will end well, Ryan turning down London and staying to work with his father, be with Kyra, promote her jewellery, live happily ever after.