MEANTIME
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Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Mike Leigh and actors Marion Bailey and Tim Roth
‘Mike Leigh: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
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- RELEASED IN: 1984
- 107 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Mike Leigh
ABOUT THE FILM:
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s MEANTIME is the culmination of the filmmaker’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.
FORMAT: DCP
DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films
COUNTRY: UK
