This Is England (2006)
Country: GB
Technical: col 101m
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
Synopsis:
In the early 80s a kid, Shaun, whose father has been killed in the Falklands gets stick at school and falls in with an affable gang of skinheads, who do nothing worse than trash abandoned council houses until their former general, Combo, gets out of prison and alienates most of them with his National Front machismo. Shaun, however, is hooked.
Review:
A sobering look at how familial dysfunction and economic circumstance can lead in some cases to the most wanton and incohate rage. The period's general drab ugliness is well caught, and Meadows puts in some impressionistic slow-mo stuff to undercut the group's preening sense of importance, that and a final shot homage to Les quatre cents coups. Young Turgoose was so good he appeared again in Somer's Town, but (Combo) is equally fine.
Country: GB
Technical: col 101m
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
Synopsis:
In the early 80s a kid, Shaun, whose father has been killed in the Falklands gets stick at school and falls in with an affable gang of skinheads, who do nothing worse than trash abandoned council houses until their former general, Combo, gets out of prison and alienates most of them with his National Front machismo. Shaun, however, is hooked.
Review:
A sobering look at how familial dysfunction and economic circumstance can lead in some cases to the most wanton and incohate rage. The period's general drab ugliness is well caught, and Meadows puts in some impressionistic slow-mo stuff to undercut the group's preening sense of importance, that and a final shot homage to Les quatre cents coups. Young Turgoose was so good he appeared again in Somer's Town, but (Combo) is equally fine.
Country: GB
Technical: col 101m
Director: Shane Meadows
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
Synopsis:
In the early 80s a kid, Shaun, whose father has been killed in the Falklands gets stick at school and falls in with an affable gang of skinheads, who do nothing worse than trash abandoned council houses until their former general, Combo, gets out of prison and alienates most of them with his National Front machismo. Shaun, however, is hooked.
Review:
A sobering look at how familial dysfunction and economic circumstance can lead in some cases to the most wanton and incohate rage. The period's general drab ugliness is well caught, and Meadows puts in some impressionistic slow-mo stuff to undercut the group's preening sense of importance, that and a final shot homage to Les quatre cents coups. Young Turgoose was so good he appeared again in Somer's Town, but (Combo) is equally fine.