Common People *
Dirs: Stewart
Alexander, Kerry Skinner. With: Sam Kelly, Diana Payan, Iarla McGowan. 89 mins.
Cert: 12A.
Nowt to do with Pulp, but
an excruciatingly twee community project, set on Tooting Common yet so bereft
of recognisable human behaviour it could be unfolding in the furthest reaches
of the Andromeda galaxy. An am-dram scoutmaster finds ways to distract his
precocious charges from retrieving spent condoms; two oldtimers lend their
voices to bum-sniffing dogs (“Ruvvery: that’s lovely in dog”); its clumsy Big
Society cheerleading peaks with the torturous immigration metaphor sparked by
an escaped parakeet. It wears its heart as a toddler does ice cream on a hot
day: on its sleeve, down its front and all over its trousers.
Common People opens in selected cinemas from Tuesday.
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