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They say it is a cult film, one I was not aware of anyway, and Tin though the best of this film, so as lately he has seem to develope not an uncommon taste as mine, I decide to look after.
And I can see why he has come to that highly regarded picture.
First it is brillantly played. Not one weakness, the actors are just perfect.
The mid-period of this film, starting with the trip to the county side to the return to London, is just but a real joy, if the whole film could have had this pace it would have been
a serious contender for one of my favourit in the years to come.
So I will sometimes give it another go.
More than worth, and even more so if you have been a part of the 60´70´in your actual life.
Tres bon.
Follow Ups:
If it was funny it was High Brit Humor and my ladder doesn't extend that far.
And come back....
I saw this in a theater first time. Not so long ago, I got the DVD and watched it again after many years. I find this really funny, most of all, the whole shambling drug-addled existence that these guys are living. It's just such an exaggeration of a certain type of young person's life, I never fail to laugh. And then there is the uncle. I chuckle just thinking about that fellow. And there is some warmth and a bit of a poignant ending.
Yes, the uncle was humanisticly and perfectly painted.
...And he had a hell of a wine cellar....
there's a uniquely British sensibility working here. If you are attuned to the eccentricities + subtleties of British humour; it's a very very funny film.
One of my favorites, I've had British friends visit and watch this laughing all the way through; friends from the USA sit in stony silence and don't enjoy it one bitThankyou George Harrison for backing this film and capturing the spirit of the bohemian 1960's like a butterfly in a jar
Grins
My friend who is in the music business had a few years ago a dinner with GH, and after I ask him how this guy was...terribly nice, he said.
And so he must have been.
***capturing the spirit of the bohemian 1960's like a butterfly in a jarThat somehow makes a good film? There are MANY things you can catch the spirits of quite perfectly, that I would not want to be part of.
Need I even list a few of those?
I think that "British"... "Italian"... "Russian"... excuse is rather lame. I can appreciate art from just about any country... as long as it is just that - art. OK... not necessarily art, even... but something of human interest with a dash of imagination thrown in.
I can understand - to a small degree - the warm feelings of familiarity. I could probably relate to a few things many people would find objectionable, as they were part of my growing up. I would not, however, consider that fact as sufficient to elevate something I would otherwise would not want to see, to the art status.
Well this film has the " cult " statue somehow, and it has some good moment I feel.
As for being ART...
At least see the movie before dismissing it. It's one of my faves, and has been for years. It has a wonderful subtlety that's missing from most modern movies. A real gem IMHO. Doug
Where did you get the idea that I didn't see it?
Pretentious and too self-conscious....... an art-house wank fest
But, I don't see the pretentiousness of making a big deal of cooking up ONE egg or putting Ben Gay on to keep warm.
These guys were struggling in dire poverty to try and make a career in acting: it's an autobiography, actually.
If you didn't think the scenes with the uncle were funny, where he started to recount his younger days... or the scenes when the cops pulled them over?
Or, before that, with the poacher in the pub?
Pretentious? Exactly what!!!!!!!!?
(You may not have liked Chris and you may not like Sean but making a snide comment (I'll not suggest you were trying to make a joke) upon Chris's death is a bit over the top, no?)
(You may not have liked Chris and you may not like Sean but making a snide comment (I'll not suggest you were trying to make a joke) upon Chris's death is a bit over the top, no?)... lol ! getting sensitive, tin? (or course it was!)
the cajoling of the uncle to get their hands on his wine collection?
How about all the scenes feezing in the apartment? I spent some incredibly cold times in my house in Minnesota during the winters though we never were quite as desperate as to smear Ben Gay on ourselves to keep warm. The drug paranoia was hysterical throughout.
That scene where he was trying to fake pissing was a classic: I almost wet myself laughing.
Richard E. Grant, his "gay" roomate, and the aggressive uncle were all perfect.
The Jaguar? Ah, I owned a 3.8, I believe that was a 3.4?
The movie is perfect, including the ending in the park where a very drunken Grant recites the famous soliloquy (quite well, too, considering).
Well you will excuse but I did not ( freeze ) in Nice, but broken I was!
I still have one. ( The jag...)
No, the best parts where for me where in the country. The end with his monolog was brillant too, and the way their friendship will and comes to an end, that was very sensitive.
One will make it the other is just but a left over.
Definitely not my cup of tea.
That is the point I already mentioned, the 60´s and now I would ad, if you not have been part ot this sub culture in France / England you may have trouble with it.
I was.
But as I said the " middle " was that what was rewarding.
inside the theater. Timothy Spraul(?) is always great as a nerd.
Spraul? Which nerd?Griffiths was the actor I prefered. Wonderful.
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