Sightseers (2012)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram
Synopsis:
An out of work man and a young woman in mourning for her dead puppy set out on a caravan holiday together through the Pennines, but before long a propensity for murder manifests itself.
Review:
From Gun Crazy to The Honeymoon Killers to Bonnie and Clyde, the cinematic antecedents to this kind of scenario are manifold. Wheatley, however, removes the financial imperative and we are left with a British provincial nihilism, with sideswipes at eco-tourism and commercialism. Critics liked it, doubtless because it was negative about the state of the nation, but the writing is puerile, and realism, psychological or otherwise, largely absent.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram
Synopsis:
An out of work man and a young woman in mourning for her dead puppy set out on a caravan holiday together through the Pennines, but before long a propensity for murder manifests itself.
Review:
From Gun Crazy to The Honeymoon Killers to Bonnie and Clyde, the cinematic antecedents to this kind of scenario are manifold. Wheatley, however, removes the financial imperative and we are left with a British provincial nihilism, with sideswipes at eco-tourism and commercialism. Critics liked it, doubtless because it was negative about the state of the nation, but the writing is puerile, and realism, psychological or otherwise, largely absent.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram
Synopsis:
An out of work man and a young woman in mourning for her dead puppy set out on a caravan holiday together through the Pennines, but before long a propensity for murder manifests itself.
Review:
From Gun Crazy to The Honeymoon Killers to Bonnie and Clyde, the cinematic antecedents to this kind of scenario are manifold. Wheatley, however, removes the financial imperative and we are left with a British provincial nihilism, with sideswipes at eco-tourism and commercialism. Critics liked it, doubtless because it was negative about the state of the nation, but the writing is puerile, and realism, psychological or otherwise, largely absent.