It’s said that French screenwriter Marguerite Duras’ brief for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) was to script a love story that would not appear inconsiderable alongside the dropping of the atomic bomb. She succeeded so well with this unthinkable task that director Alain Renais’ film is recognised as a cinema classic.

Scriptwriter Rose Gilroy seems to have been given the less daunting job of writing a romcom that would be thought charming in the context of the 1969 lunar landing. In Fly Me to the Moon, she almost succeeds.