Borrowed Time (15) 86 mins **
London Film School graduate
Jules Bishop’s debut rearranges the usual geezer plot mechanics into a
makeshift urban fairytale, more Children’s Film Foundation than Kidulthood. Theo Barklem-Biggs is the
tracksuited drip coerced into burglary to settle his debts; Phil Davis the
property’s owner, possessed of an 18th century blunderbuss and
various tatty life lessons – and really it’s only Davis’s unsentimental
fleshing out of this whiskery, Steptoe-esque coot that saves the film from
total familiarity. Boosted by colourful East End location work, it exudes a
certain low-key, pootling charm, but often gets sloppy: who casts Perry Benson
as a middle-class snob?
Borrowed Time opens in selected cinemas from today.
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