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Meantime
£28.50
*Please note, this product has been imported from the US. All 4K UHD discs are Region Free and all Blu-ray discs are Region A locked.
Description
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.
Special Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
- New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael
- Interview from 2007 with actor Tim Roth
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Sean O’Sullivan
Special Offer
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