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The Low Down (DVD) (*)

$22.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min + 19 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jamie Thraves

Written By:
Jamie Thraves

Actors:
Aidan Gillen ..... Frank
Kate Ashfield ..... Ruby
Dean Lennox Kelly ..... Mike
Tobias Menzies ..... John
Rupert Procter ..... Terry
Samantha Power ..... Lisa
Deanna Smiles ..... Susan
Maggie Lloyd Williams ..... Jean
Agnieszka Liggett ..... Anna
Adam Buxton ..... Adam
Joe Cornish ..... Joe
Paula Hamilton ..... Cashpoint Woman
Alicia Eyo ..... Paul Girl (as Alicya Eyo)
Dorian Lough ..... Squash Player
Clint Dyer ..... Nathan

Synopsis:

Music video director Jamie Thraves made his feature debut with this cinema verite look at a group of bohemian Londoners straddling the line between apathy and ambition. Aidan Gillen (of the popular British TV series Queer As Folk) plays Frank, a prop artist who spends his free time chain-smoking, drinking, pontificating, and chain-smoking some more. He's at a crossroads, however: Unable to tolerate his loud, drug-dealing neighbors, he considers buying a flat of his own. At the realtors, he meets the fetching Ruby (Kate Ashfield), who shows him a variety of dismal real estate opportunities, barely veiling her contempt for the offerings. Charmed, Frank begins to go out with Kate, and as their relationship heats up, Frank notices changes in his group of laterally mobile friends. Mike (Dean Lennox Kelly) begins to take on more responsibility, both at the prop shop and in his personal life, as he proposes marriage to his longtime girlfriend -- putting him at odds with the more lackadaisical John (Tobias Menzies), a chronically tardy co-worker who's beginning to reconsider his career track. Frank finds himself mediating between the two, and unable to make any definitive choices in his own life. The Low Down made its North American Premiere at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.

Gillen and Ashfield are terrific, but so are the supporting cast--particularly Dean Lennox Kelly and Tobias Menzies as friends Mike and John. The Low Down is a thoroughly absorbing film, its emotional edginess highlighted by the hand-held camera and by the freeze-framing to distort time. The effect is quirky and inviting rather than annoyingly arty, and Thraves is clearly one to watch.

Relationships as they are really lived.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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