“Kissing Candice” (*1/2 out of four) was an oppressively weird and disorienting melodrama about a 17-year old outcast (Ann Skelly) who longs to escape her gloomy seaside town and soon becomes gradually obsessed with a troubled local stranger (Conall Keating) and then becomes entangled with a dangerous local gang. Director Aoife McArdle provides many striking images and hallucinatory touches but story itself makes no sense and leaves you stranded and cold and (eventually) bored. Haunting music score by Jon Clarke and Steve Annis’ searing cinematography are definite plusses.

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