The film tells a story of two young boy who are a piano player ( Art) and a compulsive liar ( Sal). Art teams up with Sal to pass through hard trials in the a dystopian London especially they want to escapes the rule of a grotesque impresario.
There are moments of Guy Maddin-esque vim - like the crayfish that draws tarot cards - but even cameos such as Noel Fielding's sex-pest lackey come over as try-hard in the absence of much higher purpose.
It hardly helps that in seeking to channel their inner Withnail & I, Winder and Bennett struggle to register against their scene-stealing co-stars or that Al Joshua's loquaciously episodic script makes so few expository compromises.
