My goodness, this brought back memories. I grew up in London in the 1960s and also lived in areas like this up in the Midlands. The movie is a wonderful nostalgic period piece for those of us who knew this world, peripherally or centrally. But the social commentary is timeless. The central character, Polly, yearns for real earthy genuine living and crosses the bridge from upper-class Chelsea to working-class Clapham to experience freedom from upper class social mores and pretension. The world she finds there is indeed real, genuine and earthy. But she has the choice to enter this world or leave it, unlike most of the people who were born into it. And does she fully understand the world she has entered?
Review of Up the Junction
