CLUB REVIEW: MEANTIME by kudos
well this film stinks, stinks of stale tobacco and rotting ambition and hope, there is no plot it is a pure character study, which when you have Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Alfred Molina filling some of the roles, works.
Set in the 80s on an east end estate that makes eastenders look like Dallas, Phil Daniels plays the lead as such but Tim Roth is the star (you wont recognise him as Tim Roth), as his retarded brother, the film is worth watching... just for Gary Oldman as Coxy, simple or insane I am not sure but stunning performance either way.
As I said no plot but there is some great scenes, the dole office, the lift and Coxy acting up in the flat are gripping to watch even if ever action, emotion is muted, other scenes can get suffocating, you are constantly reminded off the poverty, crushed ambition and removal of all hope
it is definitely worth a watch, the acting from Roth and Oldman is so far removed from what they are famous for
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082727/?ref_=nv_sr_
well this film stinks, stinks of stale tobacco and rotting ambition and hope, there is no plot it is a pure character study, which when you have Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Alfred Molina filling some of the roles, works.
Set in the 80s on an east end estate that makes eastenders look like Dallas, Phil Daniels plays the lead as such but Tim Roth is the star (you wont recognise him as Tim Roth), as his retarded brother, the film is worth watching... just for Gary Oldman as Coxy, simple or insane I am not sure but stunning performance either way.
As I said no plot but there is some great scenes, the dole office, the lift and Coxy acting up in the flat are gripping to watch even if ever action, emotion is muted, other scenes can get suffocating, you are constantly reminded off the poverty, crushed ambition and removal of all hope
it is definitely worth a watch, the acting from Roth and Oldman is so far removed from what they are famous for
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082727/?ref_=nv_sr_
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