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Strong Language (76 mins, no cert) Directed by Simon Rumley
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The most striking British movie for several months (the best since Christopher Nolans shoestring thriller Following, last October), Simon Rumleys directorial debut Strong Language, is getting a week at the National Film Theatre before going to video in March. Its a film of considerable promise and worth looking out for.
If I hadnt been told, Id have thought this was a vox-pop documentary with 15 assorted Londoners in their twenties standing around, each on his or her own in a pub, outside a lock-up garage, across the river from Parliament, in shabby digs and so on talking straight to camera about pop music, sex, racism, cynicism, money, their jobs, the club scene. The talk is vivid, convincing, revealing. But in fact theyre all actors, and as the movie progresses through its clusters of comment, one gradually notes a direction indicated by one of them, who begins not in three-quarter shot like the others but in...