32A

What's this 32A? A bus? Nope. It's a bra size. It's aimed at teenage girls I think. Except they wouldn't be interested in a movie set in 1979? Unless they were shown this movie at school? Or unless they liked other Irish movies set in 1979 such as The Last Bus Home or Turning Green. They won't. It's about a small group of Northside schoolgirls who go to discos at The Grove. They also fall out and discover boys. Their families are nice except the creepy taxi driver who's one of the girl's dads. It's directed by a woman so everything is nice (where's the sexist alert button?). So nice that it strays into bland and that's the problem with this movie. There is no substance at all. It's all carefully composed shots that look like they're caught by accident except they're not. It's all rehearsed beforehand. It's not realist cinema it's direct-to-DVD cinema! Except this movie got screened in our cinemas. It's another nice Irish movie. It's a shame that back in 1979 there were teenage movies like Over the Edge. No not On the Edge, 'OVER'. The Matt Dillon movie about a group of teenagers running riot in their estate. Why a shame? Because it shows how bland modern movies really are. Especially Irish ones like 32A.