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Somers Town
- When
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Sunday 17 Aug 2008 (2pm)
- Where
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Tube: Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus
- Price
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£12
- Links
With his gritty, darkly comedic, Midlands-based features such as Twenty Four Seven and Dead Man's Shoes, Shane Meadows has been one of Britain's most respected filmmakers for years. But it wasn't until This Is England, 2006's BAFTA-winning portrait of '80s Britain, that he got the global recognition he deserved. Meadows gave young actor Thomas Turgoose his big break, and the 16-year-old Turgoose returns as Meadows' leading man in Somers Town. Turgoose plays teenage runaway Tomo, who befriends Polish immigrant Marek over one summer in north London. Shot in black and white, Somers is a funny, gentle coming-of-age story — which juxtaposes beautifully against tonight's screening of England.
