Sweet (2001)

“I even tried phone sex, but they were engaged.” This has a little of “Harvey” (1950) to it, only it’s not an invisible rabbit but an invisible girlfriend (“Poppy”) that becomes the apple of the eye of “Pete” (Noël Fielding). He has a particularly full relationship with this fictitious lass, until she declares over breakfast in a café one morning that she is pregnant. The shellshocked “Pete” doesn’t react so well, so they split up. Initially devastated and desperate to woo her back, he then encounters “Daisy” (Suzy Bloom) and soon they are at it like rabbits too, not that she seems overly impressed with his lengthy lovemaking! Then “Poppy” reappears on the scene and “Pete” thinks he can can have his cake and eat it, only for his best friend “Stitch” (Julian Barrett) to put a jealous spanner in the works that sees quite a change in the relationship dynamic of all concerned. Fielding is on good form here, his energy and comedy timing works well as this really quite ridiculous scenario plays out in a style akin to Marcel Marceau. There’s that scene over their sausage and eggs when he manages to have his chat with “Poppy” whilst two bemused ladies sit at an adjacent table - sipping their tea and thinking him deranged - that raises a smile and the remainder of this ten minutes flies by entertainingly as it exposes some of the fickleness of humankind with some quick-fired, quite witty, dialogue.