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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 television 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 Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingIy disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a priggish aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middIe-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary OIdman, in his first major role). lnformed by Leigh s now trademark improvisational process and propeIled by the Iurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, Meantime is an unreIenting, often bIisteringIy funny look at life on the dole.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
- New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy RaphaeI
- More!
- PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Sean O'SuIlivan |
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