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"Confetti"? Too widely dispersed and messy.
Saw this film last night and was perusing the Internet Movie Database this morning where I located this opinion of it (paraphrased by me):
"The weddings in the end were quite entertaining , but the journey to them was painful A mixture of comedy actors from channel 4 and BBC2 produced another British comedy with out any laughs...What is happening to the British film industry , every time I go to see the latest offering I come away very disappointed..."
I'd give "Confetti" 6/10, personally...not bad, but I don't care if I never see it again. Regarding the first sentence, I believe the complete reverse to be true, and there were a few laughs, but I agree wholeheatedly with the remainder of this person's statement.
I get annoyed - and embarrassed - with contemporary British filmakers as I think they're trying too hard to create films with a broad (ie transatlantic) appeal in a quest for profit and approbation, and are not being parochial enough in trying to capture the essence of our humour. Which can travel well if delivered with conviction - like American humour for example.
A huge % of good films these days are European, Eastern and, yes, American; North and South. I'm rather glad Britain has a legacy of Ealing comedies, Powell and Pressburger, Lindsay Anderson, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh et al for example, but when does the renaissance of consistent British high-quality film-making begin?
I'm not a cultural jingoist (a great film is a great film... from wherever); I'm just culturally smarting a bit and don't want us to be a laughing stock for all the wrong reasons!
Anyone else got (strong) opinions about this?
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