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Peter and Pat – all these aspects heighten the total inability of the characters to come to terms with and break out of their inhibited mental and physical state. Hilda, of course, mirrors this situation since she is handicapped through fault of birth, while the others have the potential to lead happy lives but do not, the hard-hitting propaganda of
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for £20 a week. That was the deal and that’s how we got to make the picture for £18,500 — 35 mm, 111 minutes, Eastmancolour and costing peanuts. But the thing was that the minimum amount that the BFI, in their rules, could put into a film was £100 and their contribution to the budget of Bleak Moments was £100, which made it possible to make the film.
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is a telling indictment of a society which provides education and a tolerable degree of affluence, but fails to teach people to understand themselves, and thus to communicate with others. The flat, two-dimensional photography, the exaggerated slowness and repetition of the action, the over-acting of
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still retains many theatrical elements – confined locations, emphasis on dialogue, finely drawn and executed characterisation, and little action in the cinematic sense of the word. But where the camera excels is in its pinpointing of numerous details which make the circumstances of these characters
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In order for it to be an ‘official experimental film’... to be registered as a BFI experiment, it had to be a BFI film, and being an ‘official experiment’ meant that you didn’t have to pay union rates. So, everybody who worked on the film, no matter what department and including the actors, did it
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Sylvia leads a quiet life caring for her sister Hilda who has complex care needs. Their lonely suburban existence is accentuated by a social awkwardness that detaches them from the community and fuels a life of seclusion and despair.
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said "the actors succeed in creating an atmosphere of tangible discomfort but what they ultimately assemble is a subjective sketch, not a description or even a statement on the problem of verbal communicaiton. Leigh invited
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called 'the significance of the unexamined life.' Even the exterior shots have a plaintive, insistent quality, with beautifully composed views of pebbledash houses and garages, of clear roads and tall trees, around
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would have been a great box office success. But there's just no film industry in this country... All serious film directors have to work in television." However he made a number of films for television at the BBC.
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atmosphere, unrelieved by the sort of cathartic climax that characterises most of Leigh's subsequent work." And Coveney praised Leigh's "poetic sensitivity to what
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so frighteningly authentic. The film may be considered on two levels: first, as a tragi-comedy – with Sylvia, the secret sherry-drinker; Peter, the advocate of
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is a masterpiece, plain and simple... its greatness is not just in the direction or subject, but in the complete singularity of the performances."
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The film is based on a stage play which presented at the Open Space Theatre in March 1970. Leigh says the play was created in three weeks. He cast
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called it, "the most remarkable début by a British director, working on an absurdly low budget and with unknown actors, that I have ever seen."
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was on the board at the time, had seen the play, and was encouraging of Leigh's plans to turn it into a movie. Leigh explains:
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Leigh did not make a theatrical feature film until 1988. In 1977 he said "People like me should be making feature films.
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over the opening credits. The general inability to express inner feelings reinforces a mood of bleak, Slavic despair..
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in 1971 but did not receive a commercial release until May 1972. The film won the Golden Leopard at the
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It has also seen US release by Water Bearer Films, Inc. on VHS (1998), DVD (2004), and in their
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Rehearsals started in January 1971 and went for four weeks, followed by six weeks of filming.
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Following the play, Leigh had an unhappy experience directing Earl Cameron in a production of
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to come and see the play and Garnett was encouraging about Leigh's desire to go into films.
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had formed their own production company, Autumn Productions, and Leigh wanted to adapt
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wrote: "Originally conceived as a stage play by Mike Leigh and Leslie Blair,
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in Bermuda, after which he resolved only to work on his own material.
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has been released in 4:3 aspect ratio several times in the UK: VHS (
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called it "a striking and entirely original first feature."
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Malcolm, Derek (27 March 1972). "Laugh with the loner".
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and received an arthouse release in the USA and Canada.
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A remastered Blu-ray of the film was released by the
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Malcolm, Derek (25 May 1972). "Strangled laughter".
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who cannot string a coherent sentence together; the
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Index


Mike Leigh
Leslie Blair
Eric Allan
British Film Institute
London
£
comedy-drama
Mike Leigh
directorial debut
Open Space Theatre
Eric Allan
Mike Bradwell
Donald Sumpter
Liz Smith
George Coulouris
Tony Garnett
Leslie Blair
Albert Finney
Michael Medwin
If....
Gumshoe
Bruce Beresford
London Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival
The Monthly Film Bulletin
McLuhan
Malteser
Doncaster
Scunthorpe

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