| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Clever and rather brilliant filmed essay on the state of modern Britain, filtered through a selective appreciation of the past.
The xenophobia, superficial materialism, obsession with respectability, gynophobic patriarchy, cultural mediocrity and social snobbery of the English is well to the fore here - as well as the loneliness, psychological isolation and the need to claim others must behave as they do; ie, become so-called civilized.
Having the always-excellent Tilda SWINTON play a man allows director Sally Potter to talk both tacitly and explicitly about the differences between men and women - without the need to ram her feminist message down our throats. And all this without wasting the audience’s time pretending that she is anything but a woman - since she is an all-woman figure.
Here we see the flexibility of gender roles and the insecurity of those who wish these fixed by trying to brainwash us into thinking that these are, indeed, immutable.
Brilliantly written, brilliantly performed and brilliantly directed - just basically brilliant!
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