
The one artist who seems to transcend all of this is none other than Estonian Arvo Part (although Steve Reich and Philip Glass come very close).
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The one artist who seems to transcend all of this is none other than Estonian Arvo Part (although Steve Reich and Philip Glass come very close).
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Courtesy of Mr. Lyre
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Posted in Allan's 2000s Countdown on July 14, 2010| 13 Comments »
by Allan Fish
(UK 2001 487m) not on DVD
The writing on the wall
p Claire Hirsch d David Moore, Hettie MacDonald w Kevin Hood, Neil Biswas novel Tim Pears ph Alwin Kuchler ed Bill Diver m Jocelyn Pook, Harvey Brough art Mark Stevenson cos Pam Tait, Dinah Collin
Robert Pugh (Charles Freeman), Helen McCrory (Mary Freeman), Shaun Dingwall (James Freeman), Kaye Wragg (Laura), Hazel Monaghan (Mina), Susannah Wise (Alice Freeman), Tony Maudsley (Simon Freeman), James Bradshaw (young James), Charlotte Salt (young Laura), Ravi Kapoor, Shirley Henderson, Kathleen Byron,
The BBC’s still baffling decision to only release to VHS despite the year of release hasn’t helped this masterpiece. Nor did their decision to try and sneak it into the early year schedule like a wedding crasher. One would be forgiven for thinking they were ashamed of it. Yet let us make one thing perfectly clear, to say this is one of the great small screen achievements of the 21st century, despite being first shown only weeks into said century, does it a disservice. It’s one of the great works of either screen of the modern era.
At its centre we have the Freeman family, headed by engineering industrialist Charles, and covers their lives from around 1952 to the mid 1990s. Personal loves, hates and tragedies come and go, including a suicide and brutal murder, and continue to haunt not only the family but the fringe, in the shape of the housekeeper’s daughter.
If that seems a stingy summation of eight hours of drama, then it’s meant to be, for it’s not the plot in itself that merits its reputation. The early episodes are filled with the same sense of nostalgic, wistful memory – interspersed with old film clips – that recall the work of Terence Davies. The family matriarch and patriarch are deliberately unsympathetic, the latter refusing to accept anything that doesn’t conform to his hard facts view of the world, the other stifled by him but at the same time cruelly disparaging of her own children – most memorably when smirking at her son’s desire to go into sales and venomously retorting “why not be really ambitious and train as a cost accountant?” (more…)
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