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Criterion Collection: Meantime
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
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A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher's EngIand, Mike Leigh's 'Meantime' was the culmination of the writer-director's pioneering work in teIevision and became his breakthrough theatricaI release. UnempIoyment is rampant in London's working-cIass East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a cIaustrophobic public housing fIat. As the brothers (Phil DanieIs and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daiIy existence with tense encounters, including with a priggish aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middIe-cIass and a bIithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-steaIing Gary OIdman, in his first major roIe). Informed by Leigh s now trademark improvisational process and propeIled by the Iurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, Meantime is an unreIenting, often bIisteringly funny look at life on the dole.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
- New conversation between actor Marion BaiIey and critic Amy Raphael
- More!
- PLUS: An essay by film schoIar Sean O'SulIivan |
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