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1979 (UK)
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Set in 1970's Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people. | Add synopsis »
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England in 1979 was bleak
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(in credits order) | David Beames | ... | Robert |
| Lisa Kreuzer | ... | Ingrid |
| Sandy Ratcliff | ... | Kathy |
| Andrew Byatt | ... | Deserter |
| Sue Jones-Davies | ... | Girl |
 | Sting | ... | Just Like Eddie |
| Sabina Michael | ... | Aunt |
| Katja Kersten | ... | German Woman |
| Paul Hollywood | ... | Kid |
| Adrian Jones | ||
| Cyril Kent | ||
| Bernard Mistovski | ||
| Nina Pace | ||
| Joseph Riordan | ||
| David Squire | ||
| Kim Taylforth | ||
| Tilly Vosburgh | ||
| Sally Watkins |
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| Christopher Petit | |||
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| Heidi Adolph | screenplay | |
| Christopher Petit | screenplay | |
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| Keith Griffiths | .... | producer | |
| Renée Gundelach | .... | executive producer (as Renee Gundelach) | |
| Peter Sainsbury | .... | executive producer | |
| Wim Wenders | .... | associate producer | |
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| Martin Schäfer | |||
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| Anthony Sloman | |||
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| Susannah Buxton | |||
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| Patsy Nightingale | .... | production supervisor | |
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| Paul Carr | .... | sound mixer | |
| Martin Müller | .... | sound | |
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| Paul Bond | .... | assistant camera | |
| John de Borman | .... | assistant camera | |
| John Devine | .... | lighting electrician | |
| Patrick Duval | .... | assistant camera | |
| Olly Hoeben | .... | grip | |
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| Esta Charkham | .... | casting | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Stefna Borges | .... | assistant editor (as Stefna Smal) | |
| Stuart De Jong | .... | assistant editor (as Stuart de Jong) | |
Other crew | |||
| Renée Glynne | .... | continuity (as Renee Glynne) | |
| Georgiana Hamilton | .... | continuity (as Georgina Hamilton) | |
| Stephen Masters | .... | titles designer | |
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104 min | Sweden:102 min
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Opening scene: like a badly lit YouTube video with camera tracking around a dingy flat in the dark.
A lot of dinge. Silences devoid of talking but staring from back of head off out into alienated nowheres.
Perpetual gloom is hungover every scene. This is England of 1979. Looking as bleak and despondent as I remember it. Thatcher the milk-snatcher had just come to power.
Not just dark and dim, but dull the first time i saw it. The plot is minimal and pointless (i.e beside the point) Concerned more with observational detachment than motivational character development. It's got a morose London Dj driving his Rover past monolithic tower-blocks out towards the desolate west country. Listening to Kraftwerk tapes sent by dead brother.
Dj like an alienated mopey nobody passively drifts into and out of various encounters of estrangement with other alienated mopey no-bodies (Sting still tries to be Sting though as a solitary and subdued petrol attendant singing Eddie Cochran on guitar).
This is Wim Wenders country. The existential road movie switched from soul-less autobahn to empty A4. Wenders cinematographer (Martin Schafer) is doing all the b/w monochrome melancholy with the camera. Even got Liza Kreuzer from Alice in the Cities looking for her daughter Alice (from Alice in the Cities?). Maybe she's in Weston-Super-Mare. Lets go there.
This has become a cult film. Critics liked it because it tried to be different, i.e the same as their beloved Wim. A cool German art-house sensibility transplanted to 1970′s England. Makes it feel like a depressingly depressive place. Even more depressingly depressive than it is now.