Tempest (12A) 90 mins **
A record of a
project almost certainly more worthwhile than the film itself. In late 2011,
with the London riots fresh in the mind, 17 youngsters were recruited to enact
Shakespeare’s storm-play on an Oval housing estate. Their efforts are here
given an off-putting, skittish treatment, slapping together rehearsal footage
with animated inserts and talking-heads that suggest how Prospero may have
washed up on TV’s The Office. The
kids energise it, but it’s a choppy jumble of good intentions and half-realised
ideas, too wind-tossed in its structure to function even as a useful teaching
aid.
Tempest is in selected cinemas.
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