This "sun-kissed love letter to teen angst" is "a lush, beguiling film" in the manner of vintage Terrence Malick or Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides", said Kevin Maher in The Times.
The plot follows a group of school leavers over the course of "a sweltering A-level results day in August", as they breeze around London "intent on revelry". What they don't know is that one of them is secretly struggling with a life-threatening illness and is morbidly aware that this might be her farewell. This is Ziba (Deba Hekmat), a brilliant Iranian-British girl who had been set to study astrophysics at University College London; her "grim prognosis" injects the proceedings with "a sudden sense of urgency".
Ziba enlists her oblivious friends for a "wild bucket-list journey" around the capital, said Rógan Graham in Little White Lies. They follow her to her favourite falafel shop, go swimming on Hampstead Heath and watch a meteor shower on Primrose Hill, as she privately vows to take the ominous "last swim" of the title.
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