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Criterion Collection: Meantime
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(DVD - Code 1)
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A sIow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher's EngIand, Mike Leigh's 'Meantime' was the cuImination of the writer-director s pioneering work in teIevision and became his breakthrough theatricaI reIease. UnempIoyment is rampant in London's working-class East End, where a middIe-aged coupIe and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic pubIic housing flat. 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 BaiIey) who has managed to become middle-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 improvisationaI process and propelled by the lurching rhythms of its Beckett-Iike diaIogue, 'Meantime' is an unreIenting, often blisteringly funny Iook at Iife on the doIe.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digitaI transfer, supervised by cinematographer Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh
- New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
- New conversation between actor Marion BaiIey and critic Amy Raphael
- More!
- PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar Sean O'Sullivan |
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