Frequencies - review

Directed by Darren Paul Fisher, 2013

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In an England implausibly like our own, children are segregated according to their "frequency", a measure of how lucky they are.

Luckless low-frequency Zak (Daniel Fraser) is thus doomed never to win the girl of his dreams, high-frequency Marie (Eleanor Wyld). Or is he? Could love be stronger than made-up physics?

You know the answer, but Frequencies is still a welcome change from the angst-'n'-ass-kicking school of dystopia.

It's a shame, then, that what could have been a sweet, thoughtful fable is undone by a plot that pushes the film's unlikely premise into the further reaches of bunkum.

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