Starring: Maxime Desmons, Roberta Maxwell, Jean-Michel Le Gal, Alex Ozerov, Kristen Thomson
Director: Maxime Desmons
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 11th 2016 (UK)

Quite often with indie films it’s easy to understand what the film is trying to do and applaud it for the effort, but the movie itself doesn’t actually achieve what it sets out to do. That’s the problem with What We Have, which works better in theory than practice.

Maurice is a Frenchman who has uprooted himself to a new life in a remote town in Northern Canada. He’s gone there to escape a past that haunts him, but despite his new surroundings, he finds it difficult to connect with the people he meets. He gets two jobs – one as an actor in French-language plays and the other tutoring a teenage boy who needs help with his foreign-languages. [Read more…]