Picture this: Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in a car together. Falling in love. Scoff you might, except that’s what we get in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, a madcap dramatic comedy that locks those two odd birds in a cage together to see what happens. It’s something cinema loves to do, as this lot are here to prove…
1. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 2007)
Before he buffed up as a cruiser of the mean streets in Drive, Ryan Gosling got up close and personal with a life-sized doll in this kooky drama. Arriving in a big coffin-shaped box, anatomically correct sex doll Bianca is Lars’s first, um, ‘real’ girlfriend. Hey, it’s a lifestyle choice and who are we to judge?
2. Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
What’s a teenager to do? Young Harold (Bud Cort) is obsessed with death, but he soon gets very interested in life when he comes across sprightly OAP Maude (Ruth Gordon). Though the age difference is cavernous, these two strike up one of cinema’s most interesting (and unusual) romances. Genuinely moving.
Josh Winning 