Tuesday, 1 January 2019

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018 Ben Wheatley & scr, ed)

Well, he actually includes the cast in the writing credit. Neil Maskell (No Offence, Eric, Ernie and Me, Humans) arranges a family get-together in a posh castle and ends up not enjoying the experience (but, we think, everyone else does).

Rapidly edited and filmed with an Unsteadycam, it manages to be quite involving, occasionally betraying an improved moment (e.g. between Asim Chaudhry (from Click and Collect) and his parents (Vincent Ebrahim familiar from somewhere). With Sura Dohnke, Nicole Nettleingham, Bill Paterson, Hayley Squires, Mark Monero, Richard Glover (the 'owner' of the castle, perhaps the most sympathetic character), Sinead Matthews, Sarah Baxendale. Bored of typing out actors' names now.


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