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A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations
Steven Hillman
- Construction Worker
- (as Steve Hillman)
Risade Campbell
- Local Kid
- (as Risadé Campbell)
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- TriviaWhen Maria is speaking to the French man in the café where she works, the man is in fact talking about his digestion problems.
- SoundtracksJerk It
Written by Sid Barnes, Randall Stewart and J.J. Jackson
Performed by The Gypsies
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for my money, better than 'This is England'
Though clearly a bit of a "quickie" project made in the immediate afterglow of This Is England - and featuring that film's young star Thomas Turgoose in one of the two main roles - the DV-shot, (mainly) black-and-white, minimal-budgeted 'Somers Town' is by no means a "minor" Meadows. Indeed, in terms of tonal consistency, concision and cumulative emotional wallop, it's in several ways a more satisfying enterprise than its bigger, BAFTA-winning "brother". Indeed (again), there have been very few more moving films from any director since Meadows' own Dead Man's Shoes (2004) - though in this instance it's very much a case of joyful rather than sorrowful tears. This is a delightful, quietly topical, deceptively slight miniature about teenage friendship and first love - scarcely new subjects for cinema, but handled with sufficient sensitivity, humour and spirit to emphatically justify such a choice of material. Meadows and his scriptwriter Paul Fraser, meanwhile, deserve particular credit for so deftly maintaining such a delicate balance between the bouncily engaging story and its sad, even tragic subtexts.
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- Feb 17, 2008
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- Also known as
- Сомерстаун
- Filming locations
- Champ de Mars, Paris 7, Paris, France(The End in Paris)
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- Budget
- £500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,189,186
- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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