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Meantime (1983) [The Criterion Collection]
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Meantime (1983)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama | Director: Mike Leigh
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1800 x 1080 | HEVC @ 1964 Kbps | 1h 47mn | 1,70 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Drama | Director: Mike Leigh
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat. 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 middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role). Informed by Leigh’s now trademark improvisational process and propelled by the lurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, Meantime is an unrelenting, often blisteringly funny look at life on the dole.
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