Don't be fooled by the lush scenery or romantic persiflage in today’s clip from the much-hyped British film Catch Me Daddy, for things are about to come violently unstuck for the movie’s star-crossed lovers. The dazzling feature debut of sibling filmmakers Daniel and Matthew Wolfe tells the story of Laila (Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) and Aaron (Conor McCarron), who go on the run after Laila’s father, furious that she has run off with a non-Muslim, sends thugs to hunt them down.

“The idea for the film came to me at a writing retreat where Ted Hughes used to live, and my brother and I wanted to use that landscape as the backdrop for the film,” says Daniel of the stark, breathtaking moors in the north of England, the perfect location for what the brothers describe as “loosely a British Western.”

While perhaps best described as a modern-day Romeo and Juliet, unlike the tragic denouement of the Shakespeare classic, what exactly happens next in Catch Me Daddy is deliberately left open to interpretation. “I love the idea that you can be just catching a moment of someone's life, and then their life continues, and you are left to work out a story about them and project your own views on it,” says Daniel, a music video director who memorably cast Jake Gyllenhaal as a sword-wielding psychopath in the Shoes’ “Time to Dance.” “It's visceral, cinema you can feel.”

Catch Me Daddy opens in UK cinemas on Friday February 27.