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AKA (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
118 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Duncan Roy

Written By:
Duncan Roy

Actors:
Matthew Leitch ..... Dean Page
Diana Quick ..... Lady Gryffoyn
George Asprey ..... David
Lindsey Coulson ..... Georgie
Blake Ritson ..... Alexander Gryffoyn
Peter Youngblood Hills ..... Benjamin
Geoff Bell ..... Brian Page
Hannah Yelland ..... Camille Sturton
Daniel Lee ..... Jamie Page
Bill Nighy ..... Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
David Kendall ..... Lee Page
Fenella Woolgar ..... Sarah
Sean Gilder ..... Tim Lyttleton
Robin Soans ..... Neil Frost
Stephen Boxer ..... Dermot

Synopsis:

AKA is the story of a disaffected youth's search for love, status, and identity in late 1970s Britain. 18-year old Dean is handsome and bright, but feels hampered by his working-class background and by his family. In order to make something of himself, Dean assumes another identity and manages to enter high society. As he navigates this decadent new world, he meets a host of characters, including David, an older gay man who desires him, and Benjamin, a young hustler from Texas who has also managed to find a place among the aristocracy. Can Dean find love while living a lie? How much is he willing to sacrifice in order to pull off his charade? Director Duncan Roy impressively presents AKA through three simultaneous frames rather than one, offering the audience a deeper and more complex perspective through which to view Dean's engrossing story.

Duncan Roy's British film looks at first like an adaptation of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' but is in fact autobiographical: a good-looking lad from lower middle class Briton poses as an aristocrat and penetrates the exclusive social circles of late 1970's London and Paris. The material comes packed with dramatic possibilities and rich metaphors, but Mr. Roy focuses most of his energy on caricaturing his wealthy former friends. You would probably have to go back to the Soviet propaganda of the 1920's to find more a vicious treatment of the British aristocracy, who are here portrayed as cocaine-sniffing, wife-swapping, servant-beating decadents, for whom snobbery is more than a way of life

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2007.

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