Tuesday 25 May 2021

Where Hands Touch (2018 Amma Assante & scr)

Whilst it sounded intriguing, I don't think we really needed a film about the Nazis were horrible to black people too, even mixed race half German ones. I think the screenplay handles its various issues in a clunky way, and in its plot development at the end actually makes no sense. I found the way everyone speaks with a slightly German accent terribly distracting - what's wrong with the Death of Stalin / Chernobyl approach and leaving accents regional? So all in all I'm afraid it's a no from me, and as A United Kingdom was also a bit disappointing, it leaves Belle as the only decent film she's made. Not a great title, either.

We both kept thinking of JoJo Rabbit!

Amandla Stenberg, Abbie Cornish, George MacKay, Chris Ecclestone, Tom Goodman-Hill. The nice baker Will Attenborough is the grandson of Dickie and Sheila Sim.

MacKay has a funny kind of presence - a slightly nervy but distracted one.

Photographed by Remi Adefarasin. Edited by Steve Singleton, who's normally at work in TV on things like StrikeLine of Duty, The Fall and Bodyguard. Filmed in Belgium and the Isle of Man.

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