Monday 6 January 2014

Freeview (UK) films of the day ; monday 6th of January

Sightseers (2012 84min.) [Film4 10.55pm &+1]

Black comedy from Kill List director Ben Wheatley, starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram. A couple from the Midlands set off on a week-long caravan holiday in the English countryside. However, a seemingly freak accident is the catalyst for their vacation to take a violent turn.

The film dubbed "Natural Born Caravanners" by critic Alan Jones is funny, playful and surprisingly horrible in places but it's also a great deal of fun.
Lowe and Oram are in terrific form and Ben Wheatley is the perfect director to handle this material and provide the perfect balance bewtween the silliness and the moments of gore and violence.


The Class (2008 124min.) [C4 1.00am tuesday]

Award-winning social drama starring François Bégaudeau as a teacher searching for ways to inspire his new class of teenagers at the start of another year at a tough, racially mixed school in Paris.

Laurent Cantet's Palme d'or-winning film about a French teacher and his often tricky relationship with a class of 14-year-olds in a multi-cultural quartier of Paris is a world way from Hollywood movies about crusading teachers, but arguably even more gripping.
Shot in seamless docu-drama style with semi-improvised performances, it also gives an honest picture of the problems confronting both teachers and pupils in modern Europe.
There's drama, heartbreak and insubordination aplenty.

A timely and well-made observation of the attractions and dangers of the drive towards order, conformity and discipline during a period of social change.

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