Saturday 19 October 2013

Keeping Mum
(2005)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD



An old fashioned, Ealing-style black comedy with a hard modern edge; while remaining somewhat light and superficial.

The ostensible story of a married couple losing their way in their marriage is touchingly re-enacted by expert performers; alongside a beautifully self-parodic supporting turn from Patrick SWAYZE as a narcissistic and sex-obsessed golf trainer.

This somewhat unrealistic film relies heavily on its many amusing performances, in fact, no more so than from Maggie SMITH as the catalyst for practically everything that happens. As a woman who murders people she disagrees with, she is at once both horrifying and cloyingly sweet. It is also clever of Rowan ATKINSON to play someone without a sense of humour who slowly (through faith & sex) comes to develop a way of talking that is both funny and profoundly communicative.


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