I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 103m
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jamie Foreman, Ken Stott, Sylvia Syms, Malcolm McDowell
Synopsis:
A former London gangster returns from a marginal existence to find his brother and discovers he has been killed. Determined to uncover the truth behind a supposed suicide he struggles to prevent his violent past coming back into his life.
Review:
Perhaps inevitably evoking the shade of Get Carter in its narrative shape, this slender film suffers additionally by comparison with its forbear. A flashback structure adds nothing and a number of narrative loose ends will irritate some while intriguing others. The lead wanders through most of the film without expression and everyone else flaps around as if he were the second coming, for reasons we must guess at. It is remarkable for having perhaps one of the most original plot premises of any gangster film: a gangster buggers a pusher out of feelings of inadequacy and the latter commits suicide out of shame. Clearly a hook on which to hang some sort of meditation on men and their violent deeds coming back to haunt them.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 103m
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jamie Foreman, Ken Stott, Sylvia Syms, Malcolm McDowell
Synopsis:
A former London gangster returns from a marginal existence to find his brother and discovers he has been killed. Determined to uncover the truth behind a supposed suicide he struggles to prevent his violent past coming back into his life.
Review:
Perhaps inevitably evoking the shade of Get Carter in its narrative shape, this slender film suffers additionally by comparison with its forbear. A flashback structure adds nothing and a number of narrative loose ends will irritate some while intriguing others. The lead wanders through most of the film without expression and everyone else flaps around as if he were the second coming, for reasons we must guess at. It is remarkable for having perhaps one of the most original plot premises of any gangster film: a gangster buggers a pusher out of feelings of inadequacy and the latter commits suicide out of shame. Clearly a hook on which to hang some sort of meditation on men and their violent deeds coming back to haunt them.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 103m
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jamie Foreman, Ken Stott, Sylvia Syms, Malcolm McDowell
Synopsis:
A former London gangster returns from a marginal existence to find his brother and discovers he has been killed. Determined to uncover the truth behind a supposed suicide he struggles to prevent his violent past coming back into his life.
Review:
Perhaps inevitably evoking the shade of Get Carter in its narrative shape, this slender film suffers additionally by comparison with its forbear. A flashback structure adds nothing and a number of narrative loose ends will irritate some while intriguing others. The lead wanders through most of the film without expression and everyone else flaps around as if he were the second coming, for reasons we must guess at. It is remarkable for having perhaps one of the most original plot premises of any gangster film: a gangster buggers a pusher out of feelings of inadequacy and the latter commits suicide out of shame. Clearly a hook on which to hang some sort of meditation on men and their violent deeds coming back to haunt them.