Rye Lane may be Raine Allen-Miller’s feature directorial debut, but the director tells Total Film that she didn’t always envision making a rom-com as her first movie when we meet her in a London hotel room. “I think it would have been the last type of film I’d want to make. If someone said to me, ‘Your first film will be a rom-com’, I’d be depressed,” she laughs. “Rom-com is the cheesiest genre ever normally, but I read [the script] and was like, ‘Oh, God, this is actually quite funny,’ and felt like I could add my flavor to it.”
