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15 July 2009 (USA) morePlot:
A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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1 win & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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for my money, better than 'This is England' more (22 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Piotr Jagiello | ... | Marek | |
| Ireneusz Czop | ... | Mariusz | |
| Perry Benson | ... | Graham | |
| Thomas Turgoose | ... | Tomo | |
| Kate Dickie | ... | Jane | |
| Wojciech Olczak | ... | Polish Friend | |
| Wojtek Macierznski | ... | Polish Friend | |
| Ben Porter | ... | Office Worker | |
| Jamie Belman | ... | Office Worker | |
| Steve Hillman | ... | Construction Worker | |
| Mark Monero | ... | Construction Worker | |
| Ryan Ford | ... | Local Kid | |
| Levi Hayes | ... | Local Kid | |
| Risade Campbell | ... | Local Kid | |
| Huggy Leaver | ... | Cafe Owner |
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71 min | Germany:75 min (Berlin International Film Festival)Country:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalFun Stuff
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When Maria is speaking to the French man in the café where she works, the man is in fact talking about his digestion problems. moreFAQ
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Though clearly a bit of a "quickie" project made in the immediate afterglow of This Is England - and featuring that film's young star Thomas Turgoose in one of the two main roles - the DV-shot, (mainly) black-and-white, minimal-budgeted 'Somers Town' is by no means a "minor" Meadows. Indeed, in terms of tonal consistency, concision and cumulative emotional wallop, it's in several ways a more satisfying enterprise than its bigger, BAFTA-winning "brother". Indeed (again), there have been very few more moving films from any director since Meadows' own Dead Man's Shoes (2004) - though in this instance it's very much a case of joyful rather than sorrowful tears. This is a delightful, quietly topical, deceptively slight miniature about teenage friendship and first love - scarcely new subjects for cinema, but handled with sufficient sensitivity, humour and spirit to emphatically justify such a choice of material. Meadows and his scriptwriter Paul Fraser, meanwhile, deserve particular credit for so deftly maintaining such a delicate balance between the bouncily engaging story and its sad, even tragic subtexts.