Ben Wheatley's latest film Sightseers is released across the UK today after a successful festival run that began in Cannes Directors' Fortnight and will continue into until at least January when it plays in Sundance's Spotlight section. Written by its co-stars Steve Oram and Alice Lowe (with some additional input from Alice Jump), it pursues many of the ideas familiar to Wheatley fans, mixing kitchen sink British reality and humour with altogether more murderous inclinations.
Oram and Lowe reprise characters they originally created for the stage - Tina, a stay-at-home shy sort who lives under the thumb of her harridan mother (Eileen Davis) and Chris, her bearded boyfriend who is planning to take her on trip full of romance and wild abandon, if he can just persuade her to leave with him in his caravan.
At a press screening of the film earlier this year, Wheatley, Oram...
Oram and Lowe reprise characters they originally created for the stage - Tina, a stay-at-home shy sort who lives under the thumb of her harridan mother (Eileen Davis) and Chris, her bearded boyfriend who is planning to take her on trip full of romance and wild abandon, if he can just persuade her to leave with him in his caravan.
At a press screening of the film earlier this year, Wheatley, Oram...
- 11/30/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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