DIRECTED BY SHANE MEADOWS

UK • 2008 • 70 MINS • IN ENGLISH AND POLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • FILM MOVEMENT

“A marvelous, pitch-perfect evocation of teenage friendship in modern London.”
- Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter

“A triumph.” – Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

“Sweet, funny..and very satisfying.” – Simon Abrams, New York Press

“Practically perfect!” – Karina Longworth, Spout

“(A) gentle, sweet-natured comedy shot in black and white, and blessed with a lovely performance
from Meadows’s great find, Thomas Turgoose, the teenage star of his previous film, THIS IS ENGLAND.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

“Perfectly formed…an affectionate tribute to cross-cultural friendship.
Beautifully exalted by pencil-gray monochrome lensing.”
– Leslie Felperin, Variety

“Shane Meadows is a British filmmaker with no equivalent.” – Dave Calhoun, Time Out London

Two teenage boys — Tomo, a tough-talking orphaned Brit, and Marek, a shy Polish émigré — warily develop a friendship in one of London’s more rundown neighborhoods, a place where Shane Meadows’s black and white cinematography suggests the kitchen-sink dramas of the early ’60s. Thomas Turgoose, who played a baby-faced hoodlum in Meadows’s recent skinhead drama THIS IS ENGLAND, gives another tour-de-force performance as a cheeky, funny 16-year-old who has seen it all. Tomo and Marek find ways to make a few quid, defend themselves from neighborhood bullies and dream of erotic fulfillment with the fetching French waitress they both fall for. Once again the filmmaker’s understated realism limns modern-day England in a way that is both contemporary and timeless.

• Official UK Film Site

PLUS     A – Z     BY SALLY ARTHUR

A delightful short animated film by Sally Arthur, A – Z details the creation of London’s first street atlas by “Mrs. P” (Phyllis Pearsall, voiced by Oscar-nominated British actress Emily Watson). The A – Z (pronounced A to Zed) Pearsall compiled in the 1930s involved walking the thousands of miles covered by London’s 23,000 streets. Today this handy pocket guide is a beloved institution, an essential navigating tool for natives as well as tourists.

UK • 2007 • 3 MINS. • FILMSOURCE INFORMATION