Extremely charming comedy-drama about two young women from Kirkby. Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Teresa (Margi Clarke) go for a night out in Liverpool in search of love and adventure, and for once actually encounter it in the form of two Russian sailors.
There’s plenty of sharp wit, and tough, fast-talking Clarke is especially funny. There’s also some subtle social commentary: times are hard in Liverpool. Unemployment is high as Thatcher’s influence is increasingly being felt. It’s an unvarnished, unsentimental portrait of a city struggling with poverty.
Like classic kitchen-sink narratives such as Billy Liar and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, it draws on the juxtaposition between humdrum working lives in the town where you grew up and the dreams of moving on to bigger and better things in the world beyond. It’s extremely moving and the closing scenes are unexpectedly satisfying.
Only one complaint: the shot-on-videotape film quality was poor and fuzzy.
There’s plenty of sharp wit, and tough, fast-talking Clarke is especially funny. There’s also some subtle social commentary: times are hard in Liverpool. Unemployment is high as Thatcher’s influence is increasingly being felt. It’s an unvarnished, unsentimental portrait of a city struggling with poverty.
Like classic kitchen-sink narratives such as Billy Liar and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, it draws on the juxtaposition between humdrum working lives in the town where you grew up and the dreams of moving on to bigger and better things in the world beyond. It’s extremely moving and the closing scenes are unexpectedly satisfying.
Only one complaint: the shot-on-videotape film quality was poor and fuzzy.
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