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Criterion Collection: Meantime
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A sIow-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 middIe-aged coupIe and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic pubIic housing fIat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly 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-cIass and a bIithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary OIdman, in his first major roIe). Informed by Leigh's now trademark improvisationaI process and propelled by the lurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, 'Meantime' is an unreIenting, often blisteringly funny look at life on the dole.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh
- 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'SuIIivan |
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