Question of the week: “The awards heaped on The King's Speech this weekend makes me wonder, could you suggest a favourite London-ish historical drama?”
"Providing perhaps the more extreme alternative to what’s on offer with ‘The King’s Speech’, I’d nominate Mike Leigh’s seminal film ‘Naked’. It’s an extremely bleak yet darkly comic view of London in the early nineties from a visiting misfit’s eyes and is an absolute tour-de-force from lead actor David Thewlis.
I should warn; it doesn’t make for easy viewing but if you can stomach seeing some of the darker undercurrents of London’s night-life then you’ll be treated one of the best screenplays that era had to offer – the acerbic, protractedly intellectual & cunningly brutal wordsmithery is really second to none.
Time Out has just rated it as #11 in their list of all time best London films"- Hal
* Photo by artant, used under Creative Commons, with thanks.
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