Richard Ayoade, perhaps best known for his role as uber-nerd Moss in Channel 4’s comedy The I.T. Crowd, has made his directorial debut with Submarine, an adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s coming-of-age novel about a 15 year old boy with two objectives; to lose his virginity and to stop his mother falling in love with a new age mystic.

Anyone who’s seen Ayoade’s prior ventures in a directorial capacity (like this for Vampire Weekend, for example, or this for Arctic Monkeys) will know that he possesses a keen, elegant visual style (definite hints of the compositional precision of Michaelangelo Antonioni, and latterly Wes Anderson) and an enviable ability to harness his deadpan flair in front of the camera and filter it through the lens.