I love stylish movies. I love funny movies. Sometimes Always Never is filmed like a series of Hopper paintings with jokes hidden in plain sight. If you like your dialogue crisp and your establishing shots crisper, this is the film for you.
Bill Nighy's name is above the door in this terrific directorial debut from Carl Hunter. Frank Cottrell-Boyce's screenplay about a retired tailor looking for his prodigal son is given a seemingly minimalist treatment by Hunter, but look a little deeper and this tight family based drama is a rich seam of Scrabble words, missing children, Marmite gags and red Triumph Heralds; what's not to like when references to Pickwick label Top of the Pops albums and which buttons to do up on your suit jacket* flow as naturally as Jenny Agutter walking out of the bathroom wearing nothing more than a towel?
And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, it turns out the soundtrack is only written and performed by Edwyn bloody Collins. This is a film I will watch time and again; I just know it.
Edwyn Collins - It's all About You (2019)
* Top (sometimes), middle (always), bottom (never).
Bill Nighy spoke amusingly about the whole jacket button conundrum in a recent interview with James O'Brien. I've been doing it wrong all my life apparently and no-one told me.
ReplyDeleteI think he may have borrowed that from Roger Moore...
DeleteReally want to see this one. As of yet, not in my area, but I'm hopeful. I have seen a couple of favorable American reviews.
ReplyDeleteYou won't regret it Brian.
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