Somers Town (2008)
Country: GB
Technical: bw/col 71m
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Kate Dickie, Piotr Jagiello
Synopsis:
A runaway from the East Midlands arrives in London and finds himself on the street, falling in with the son of a Polish migrant construction worker and a spiv neighbour. Together they fall in love with a French waitress and, briefly, are happy.
Review:
Brit-realist poet of the downtrodden, Meadows, essays a riff on The Knack with this slight tale of adolescent love pangs and friendship in adversity, complete with Loachian knockabout episodes. The film dates itself forever more by glancingly showing the plight of Polish workers and work on the new St Pancras Channel Tunnel terminal.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/col 71m
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Kate Dickie, Piotr Jagiello
Synopsis:
A runaway from the East Midlands arrives in London and finds himself on the street, falling in with the son of a Polish migrant construction worker and a spiv neighbour. Together they fall in love with a French waitress and, briefly, are happy.
Review:
Brit-realist poet of the downtrodden, Meadows, essays a riff on The Knack with this slight tale of adolescent love pangs and friendship in adversity, complete with Loachian knockabout episodes. The film dates itself forever more by glancingly showing the plight of Polish workers and work on the new St Pancras Channel Tunnel terminal.
Country: GB
Technical: bw/col 71m
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Kate Dickie, Piotr Jagiello
Synopsis:
A runaway from the East Midlands arrives in London and finds himself on the street, falling in with the son of a Polish migrant construction worker and a spiv neighbour. Together they fall in love with a French waitress and, briefly, are happy.
Review:
Brit-realist poet of the downtrodden, Meadows, essays a riff on The Knack with this slight tale of adolescent love pangs and friendship in adversity, complete with Loachian knockabout episodes. The film dates itself forever more by glancingly showing the plight of Polish workers and work on the new St Pancras Channel Tunnel terminal.