Black Mountain Poets is a 2016 British comedy film directed by Jamie Adams and starring Alice Lowe, Dolly Wells and Tom Cullen.
[1] Two sisters on-the-run for petty crimes hide out at a poetry retreat in the Black Mountains, Wales, impersonating the world renowned poets whose car they stole.
"[8] Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian said the film was “...funny…very silly and likeable” noting that “there are some big laughs, particularly from Alice Lowe” but with little “narrative plausibility”.
[9] Guy Lodge in Variety said: “Alice Lowe and Dolly Wells are a riot” and described a “deftly escalated farce as humane as it is hilarious”.
[10] Neil Young in the Hollywood Reporter praises cinematographer Ryan Owen Eddleston‘s demonstrations of the “alluringly elemental Welsh countryside” and praises the performances of Lowe and Wells but feels the film underuses Hannah Daniel and Clare Cage who “are consistently hilarious in their fleeting, intermittent appearances as the bemused, bohemian-bard [Wilding] babes.