Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 7, 2007 13:13:34 GMT
London to Brighton Paul Andrew Williams 2006 UK A prostitute and a young homeless girl flee from a gangster whose pimp father they killed. The kind of gritty 'realist' thriller that knocks a few critics to the floor and is hailed as the best British film in years, then immediately forgotten along with all the rest. It is shot not only in Scope but almost entirely in close-up, so there is an in-your-face relentlessness to it throughout. The acting is effective and real at times, particularly in newcomer Lorraine Stanley, who begins and ends the film with a ferocious black eye, and in between shows various faces as a well-worn girl who accepts the dangers of prostitution. Otherwise, unless you like to see miserable characters go about miserable lives for no other reason than to seem to be "realistic", it's missable stuff.
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