Last Orders (2001)
Country: GB/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 110m
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
As the friends of a deceased London butcher prepare to scatter his ashes off Margate pier, we look back over their lives with him and acquire a picture of the haphazard nature of human existence in all its imperfections but also of the redeeming power of the mutual bond.
Review:
Directed with sleek professionalism and with a wrily elegaic bass clarinet accompaniment, this ensemble piece has all the qualities of its fine cast and some neat widescreen compositions - Lang should have added bar counters to his 'snakes and funerals' axiom.
Country: GB/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 110m
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
As the friends of a deceased London butcher prepare to scatter his ashes off Margate pier, we look back over their lives with him and acquire a picture of the haphazard nature of human existence in all its imperfections but also of the redeeming power of the mutual bond.
Review:
Directed with sleek professionalism and with a wrily elegaic bass clarinet accompaniment, this ensemble piece has all the qualities of its fine cast and some neat widescreen compositions - Lang should have added bar counters to his 'snakes and funerals' axiom.
Country: GB/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 110m
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
As the friends of a deceased London butcher prepare to scatter his ashes off Margate pier, we look back over their lives with him and acquire a picture of the haphazard nature of human existence in all its imperfections but also of the redeeming power of the mutual bond.
Review:
Directed with sleek professionalism and with a wrily elegaic bass clarinet accompaniment, this ensemble piece has all the qualities of its fine cast and some neat widescreen compositions - Lang should have added bar counters to his 'snakes and funerals' axiom.