Another book-film combo as part of the Something Strange book club. The film is currently out in cinemas so this time I got to the book after the fact.
“One for the lads”, but also “one fuelled mostly by spite”. Danny Dyer plays a coke addicted football hooligan who’s been given 6 weeks to sort his life out else face prison. He tries to rekindle the romance with his wife and build a relationship with his kid.
As an open source software bore it’s a thrill seeing a film made with Blender, a brilliant 3D modelling program, win an Oscar. Better still, it was rendered without a massive server farm, instead using some of the built-in features of the software to give the film a magical and ethereal quality. What a fantastic way to work with what you’ve got.
From the posters etc I actually thought this might be a John Le Carré film, the lead character is called ‘George’ after all, and he dresses like it’s the Cold War. Well it isn’t, but it might as well be, and it’s a wonderful take on the genre.
A violent and miserly man’s (Paul Meurisse) wife (Véra Clouzot) and mistress (Simone Signoret) plot to kill him and make it look like a suicide.