Tyrannosaur (2011)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 92m
Director: Paddy Considine
Cast: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan
Synopsis:
A tormented soul kills and buries his dog, then takes refuge in a second-hand shop, but finds that the Christian woman working there has demons of her own.
Review:
Almost a paradigm for a certain miserabilist school of British film-making: sink estate, abject behaviour, no easy answers. But Considine's directorial debut is an astonishingly confident piece of work visually, with a photographer's eye for composition and lighting effects. His cast rises to the challenge of the soul-baring work without toppling into parody or sentimentality, and the results, though exacting for sensitive viewers, make for subtle and affecting drama.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 92m
Director: Paddy Considine
Cast: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan
Synopsis:
A tormented soul kills and buries his dog, then takes refuge in a second-hand shop, but finds that the Christian woman working there has demons of her own.
Review:
Almost a paradigm for a certain miserabilist school of British film-making: sink estate, abject behaviour, no easy answers. But Considine's directorial debut is an astonishingly confident piece of work visually, with a photographer's eye for composition and lighting effects. His cast rises to the challenge of the soul-baring work without toppling into parody or sentimentality, and the results, though exacting for sensitive viewers, make for subtle and affecting drama.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 92m
Director: Paddy Considine
Cast: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan
Synopsis:
A tormented soul kills and buries his dog, then takes refuge in a second-hand shop, but finds that the Christian woman working there has demons of her own.
Review:
Almost a paradigm for a certain miserabilist school of British film-making: sink estate, abject behaviour, no easy answers. But Considine's directorial debut is an astonishingly confident piece of work visually, with a photographer's eye for composition and lighting effects. His cast rises to the challenge of the soul-baring work without toppling into parody or sentimentality, and the results, though exacting for sensitive viewers, make for subtle and affecting drama.