Boy Meets Girl (1994)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Ray Brady

Writers:

Ray Brady (writer)
Jim Crosbie (writer)

Release Date:

1994 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Tagline:

Too controversial to release

Plot:

A man meets a woman in a bar, the two go back to her flat and begin watching porno films. The man passes...

Plot Keywords:

Torture | S&M | Serial Killer | Surgery | Violence

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Tim Poole	...	Tevin
Danielle Sanderson	...	Julia
Margot Steinberg	...	Anne Marie
Susan Warren	...	Woman in chair
Nathalie Khanna	...	Tevin's Wife
Myuki Smith Khanna	...	Tevin's Child
Pierre Smith Khanna	...	Tevin's Child
Georgina Whitbourne	...	Female Victim on Monitor
Robert Haynes	...	Branded Man
John Reid	...	Hanging Man
Ray Brady	...	Laughing Man
Chris Read	...	Whipped Man
Pam Hogg	...	Woman in Bar
Patrick Lelarge	...	Person in Bar
Sam Taylor-Woods	...	Person in Bar

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Certification:

UK:(Banned) (video rating) (1995) | UK:18 (original rating) (1995) | UK:18 (video re-rating) (2001) | Australia:R

Company:

Kino Eye

Trivia:

When filming in a council flat location in south London, Georgina Whitbourne was so convincing in her portrayal as a hysterically screaming victim that two vans loads of policemen arrived and stormed the set to save her, bringing filming to a halt.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Snuff Machine (2006)

The fight against censorship in the UK

Having heard of the darker appetites being indulged here and the possible repercussions if someone decided to make the events of this film a reality, I thought to always steer clear of this film, due to the subject matter but after it was released in the US on the Unearthed label I thought now it's finally on region 1 it's time to check it out.

I then read that Danielle Sanderson was fantastic in it, and I decided to bite the bullet and give it a watch. It was screened at so many festivals and received such mixed reviews from damming hateful ones to being a brave and astounding work of art.

It is an amazing film. I still did not care for the (generally perceived) subject matter, but found myself, as a writer, viewing it in the larger context of censorship. And like all writers, I'd fight for the right for a colleague's work to be read, even if I hated it.

The acting is unbelievably good.

Sanderson was perfection as the corrupt Julia (I can't even envision anyone else in that role) yet, she is perfection. That takes a prodigious talent to pull off. I think she could have even handled the lead role in "Alien". I hope that she has a long and happy career.

Tim Poole has great range as an actor, and this role proves it beyond a doubt he manages to portray a disturbed nasty individual but still manages to evoke my sympathy before the end.

This isn't a film I'd want to watch often, (I can't stomach the reading of Sade's prose, that was read out in an early scene, for long) but it is a film which is much better than expected and after watching the DVD extra's and listening to the Director's explanatory commentary on who the film was shot on a micro-budget and made as an argument within a film to challenge the way the then UK censors were desensitizing audiences to violence in the mistaken belief that they were protecting them, with the budgetary restraints it is an incredible film and I'm amazed they managed to pull it off. Ten