Comedy following the money

Pat Shortt and Fionnuala Flanagan in Life’s A Breeze, a comedy about a Dublin family’s hunt for a mattress of money; inset, newcomer Kelly Thornton.

Lance Daly’s delightfully offbeat film, Life’s A Breeze, is a charming tug-of-war between optimism and pessimism.

The self-styled ‘recession comedy’ stars Fionnuala Flanagan, Par Shortt, and newcomer, Kelly Thornton, as three generations of a Dublin family who have to retrieve a mattress full of cash that was inadvertently chucked out.