I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Hodges, 2003): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
The 'Wanted! British Crime on Film' season from Lost Reels continues with Mike Hodges little seen, underrated swan song. This fim will be screened on 35mm.Time Out review:
Will Graham has changed - or has he? He used to be respected, even
feared, around his Southeast London manor, but then he gave up crime for
isolation and anonymity in a camper van in Wales, doing odd jobs,
minding his own business, lying low. Some of those back home might like
him six feet lower, so the one person he communicates with is his kid
brother Davey (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), whose criminality tends to a pettier, less
violent variety than that of Will's former rivals. But when Will's calls
get no reply, he returns to investigate. In some ways the plot
resembles Get Carter, but where that film leavened its brutality
with black humour, the tone here is darker. Together, Hodges'
judiciously pared back direction and Trevor Preston's pleasingly terse
script create a bluesy urban riff on a certain kind of gangland
masculinity - at once homoerotic and homophobic - and its twisted ethics
of shame, status, revenge and redemption. With its laconic protagonist
beautifully played by Owen, its gallery of credible characters, and a
wonderfully sustained subterranean mood, the film calls to mind
Jean-Pierre Melville.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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