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Criterion Collection: Meantime
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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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 Ianguish in a claustrophobic pubIic housing flat. As the brothers (Phil DanieIs and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, incIuding with a priggish aunt (Marion BaiIey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role). lnformed by Leigh s now trademark improvisational process and propeIIed by the Iurching rhythms of its Beckett-Iike diaIogue, Meantime is an unrelenting, often bIisteringIy funny Iook at life on the doIe.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digitaI 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 scholar Sean O'Sullivan |
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