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4 July 1980 (West Germany) morePlot:
Set in 1970's Britain, a factory worker drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people. | add synopsisNewsDesk:
Weekend Reading: Color in Black-and-White(From Rope Of Silicon. 5 June 2009, 9:13 PM, PDT)
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Why we hated the 1970s moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Beames | ... | Robert |
| Lisa Kreuzer | ... | Ingrid |
| Sandy Ratcliff | ... | Kathy |
| Andrew Byatt | ... | Deserter |
| Sue Jones-Davies | ... | Girl |
 | Sting | ... | Just Like Eddie |
| Sabina Michael | ... | Aunt |
| Katja Kersten | ||
| Paul Hollywood | ... | Kid |
| Adrian Jones | ||
| Cyril Kent | ||
| Bernard Mistovski | ||
| Nina Pace | ||
| Joseph Riordan | ||
| David Squire |
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This is one of Britain's forgotten films (only 4 IMDb reviews at the time of writing these comments, nearly 30 years after it was made). The first film by the then film critic Chris Petit, made in 1979, it conveys accurately the bleakness - and the depressing music - of the late 1970s.
The plot is minimal. A morose, alienated man learns of his brother's death and travels from London to Bristol to find out more. The 'quest' is half-hearted and his encounters on the road and in Bristol are unsatisfactory and unfulfilled. Nothing seems worthwhile following through. whether it is his investigation into his brother's life and death, his encounter with a German woman or even his relationship with his antique Rover car.
The B/W photography is splendid, matching perfectly the mood of alienation and the bleak picture of a part of England in the winter of 1979. The influence of Wim Wenders (the producer) is clear but it is very distinctively an English film, worth seeing and listening to if only to remind us of the dismal '70s - but having seen it, that's enough. Interesting, but not a classic.