The Play's The Thing Project. Written by director Alan Clarke and Arthur Ellis, their collective approach to the issues of drug use is one that is radically different from one most viewers will be accustomed to. The titular character played by Vicky Murdock is a young teenage girl with an obviously sympathetic and caring nature but also a debilitating drug habit.
As Clarke trails her with his trademark and groundbreaking use of Steadicam we observe not the drama of addiction, nor the glamourisation some films carelessly and reprehensibly assign to the subject matter, but the sheer mundanity of a life that relies on one fix after another.
This could've been better. I just didn't get much out of anything. The acting was pretty good, the writing was fine, just didn't do it for me. On the surface, a social commentary about the dissolution of the younger generation. But it's also about tracking shots, bad fashion and bad wallpaper, bad interior design and tragic urban planning, the unspiritualness of flat landscapes, the soul-crushing anonymity of suburban brick architecture, afternoon culture, asexuality, television as an aural phenomenon, the consequences of colonialism, and total freedom's inevitable concomitant: utter desolation.
The least "drug movie" drug movie ever made. Never exciting nor tragic, a lazier writer might link the resistance to any action as speaking towards the vitality drained by heroin, the drug of choice here.
But mapping any politics or point onto Clarke's vision seems corny and reductive. These are things that are present in Clarke's film, yet doesn't speak of them. What one may perceive as documentary aimlessness gives way to a discovery of the surrounding environment.
His aesthetic of walking is as…. One of the greatest films of the s. The difference between this pristine HD copy and the shoddy YouTube version I had seen before is significant and reveals the film to be even greater than originally estimated though I considered it a masterpiece before.
I'll let you know how it goes. I'm very excited. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps.
Where to watch. Christine Directed by Alan Clarke Synopsis Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent. Director Alan Clarke. Brenda Reid. Tariq Anwar. Dennis Cartwright. After that talk, Cvorovic is convinced that his neighbour represents the greatest threat to national security and begins his own surveillance operation against that man.
Is it just his imagination or his tenant is a dangerous terrorist that should be stopped before he tries to undermine socialism and ruin everything in what Ilija believes? Read More ». After the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.
When guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective tries to find out the truth. Subs were timed and commissioned by me thanks TheCatacomb as always. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Add photo. Top cast Edit.
Vicky Murdock Christine as Christine. Kelly George Eddie as Eddie. Mark Harvey Ben as Ben. Joanne Mapp Jessie as Jessie. Anthony Smith Eric as Eric. Alan Clarke. Storyline Edit.
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