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Bookmark this pageThe Late Twentieth (2002)
Director: Hadi Hajaig
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From Time Out Film Guide
This Super-16 neo-noir takes the psychological route through a morass of revenge and redemption motifs - notions of the former being displaced, the latter endlessly deferred. But for all its exploration of guilt rather than geezerdom, the film still can't quite cut its apparent aim of being a genre work with knobs on. Its anti-hero freezes when his girlfriend is blown away in a mini-mart heist, and is denied an obvious target for retribution when the shooter is immediately totalled by a passing car. Vigilantism (against the drug culture he blames) becomes his creed. He's sentenced and sectioned; escapes; obsesses. A particularly unsavoury Mr Big becomes his potential passport out of his own self-loathing nightmares. All this is shot and cut with invention, and some respect for the un-bludgeoned viewer, but it's hobbled with a ciné-allusive script.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Hadi Hajaig
Producer: Hadi Hajaig
Cast: John Webber, Justin Allder, Sam Loggin, Hannah Watkins, Camilla Heaney, Markus Napier, Paula Jennings, Robin Hellier full cast
Duration: 80 mins
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