- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2014
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Shane Meadows
- Outstanding Performances:
- All.
- Premiss:
- A pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.
- Themes:
- Empathy
- Friendship
- Identity
- Loyalty
- Self-expression
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Minor miracle of a movie painted on a necessarily small canvas by a film director resting between films who is (now) incapable of producing lazy, inconsequential work.
Using performers who are just right for what needs to be said, the performances here are as natural as natural could be. The film is filmed in master shots that allow the actors to fully express the emotion of a scene without undue and unnecessary cutting getting in the way. Apparent stasis produces greater motion, as this constant underplaying creates a far greater emotional effect than a full-blown melodrama.
In essence, this movie expresses the humanity at the heart of so much of ordinary, everyday life that is missed by those bigger scale films obsessed with the unusual, the cruel and the deranged. And it does it all without trying too hard.
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