THERE'S never a good time to find out your wife's been sleeping with your best mate - but when you discover it at your wedding reception - you know you've got problems.

But disillusioned groom (Doug Henshall) wastes no time on wayward wives and picks up his next girlfriend at Heathrow - airport cleaner Marey (Kathy Burke).

They've "barely" been introduced before Danny - a tattoo artist - is leaving his mark on Marey's bum!

Meanwhile Danny's new wife Hannah (Catherine McCormack) has a drunken enounter with Cameron (Dougray Scott), an artist of limited talents whose hygiene habits leave a lot to be desired.

With nothing else on offer, Hannah, who runs a trendy Camden Town market stall and obviously has no sense of smell, moves in with Cameron and his flatmate Liam (Ian Hart.)

Liam - a geeky John Lennon lookalike who collects comics - has fallen for the ample charms of single mum Sophie (Jennifer Ehle).

Swapping her Pride and Prejudice ringlets for Rastafarian dreadlocks and combat pants - Ehle is brilliant as former Roedean girl turned rebel.

Obviously believing everything she reads in Cosmo - ie tell your lover where he's going wrong - she puts the willing-but-not-very-able Liam through hell.

But this is only part of the magic of This Year's Love from Scottish director David Kane.

The partners continue to swap around with hilarious consequences. Burke as the "You just woke up with a fat bird" does her best to convince her lovers she's too unattractive to be taken seriously, but manages to snare more than her fair share of male talent.

Dougray Scott, who has an accent to die for, is superb and suprisingly attractive in a dirty raincoat type of way.

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