Sightseers POINT Steve Oram and Alice Lowe ★★★★★ out Now Created Their Characters for a Think Kill List in a Caravan

SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED... WITHNAIL & I 1987 Alcoholic actors Richard E Grant and Paul McGann go “on holiday by mistake” with True love means debauched/ never complaining depressing/ about having to hilarious results. wear an anorak. A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS 1999 Shane Meadows’ third feature details Andrew (This Is England) Shim’s strange coming of age. SUBMARINE 2010 Widescreen teenage emotions writ small in TF columnist Richard Ayoade’s directorial debut. For full reviews of these films visit totalfilm.com/ cinema_reviews TALKING Sightseers POINT Steve Oram and Alice Lowe ★★★★★ Out now created their characters for a Think Kill List in a caravan. TV series that never happened. They actually took this exact ROM BADLANDS TO NATURAL Cavern to Keswick’s Pencil Museum. and make me use it trip in a camper van, Born Killers, lovers-on-the-run flicks Even their star-crossed love is constantly as a brown lipstick!” improvising along the way. F take pulp fiction narratives for undercut by their deadpan patter, not to Between killer lines romantic rides across America, the sweep mention Tina’s penchant for pot pourri and and skull-cracking and the drama of the scenery matching the crotchless (but crocheted) knickers. When murders, there’s a weary reality that makes magnitude of the heroes’ emotions – and she envisages them dying together in the Sightseers sad where lesser works might their crimes. The genius of Kill List director name of romance, Chris’ response is skew silly. As Tina’s fear of being left Ben Wheatley’s third film, a parochial black characteristically Partridge-esque. “Going behind by Chris lead them further along comedy based on a screenplay by lead to salsa’s romantic,” he says. the road to ruin, their actors Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, is “We could try that first.” deteriorating relationship is that it takes all this cultural baggage and It might not sound much ‘ Tonal shifts echoed by the increasingly transports it, by caravan, to Redditch. on paper, but it’s all in the make this funny, desolate surroundings. One As normal-seeming new boyfriend Chris delivery, the appealing lead scene ends with a dog (Oram) whisks homebody Tina (Lowe) performances combining sinister and eating sick – you don’t away on a UK holiday, the trail of deaths with Wheatley’s sudden strangely moving’ see that in True Romance. they cause begins mundanely, with a car tonal shifts to produce Another, in Keswick Pencil park-based RTA at the Crich Tramway a film that’s funny, sinister and strangely Museum, leaves you unsure whether to Museum. The settings more than match, moving. Don’t write in, but the Midlands laugh or cry. It may peter out a little as the pair explore Little England in all its accents help here: unpretentious and towards the end, as all road movies must, pretty pettiness, from Castleton’s Blue John unexpected, they bring to mind Shane but for the most part this is a staycation Meadows’ early work to cherish. Matt Glasby PREDICTED INTEREST CURVE™ (which this strongly recalls) and undercut the Dingley Kimberley Restaurant Ribblehead THE VERDICT At first Father Ted cute, THRILLED Redditch Dell Stone Viaduct characters’ more extreme but then League Of Gentlemen cruel pronouncements. “He’s ENTERTAINED – a combination that Wheatley never ruined the tram museum lets curdle – this is a dark little delight. for me now,” huffs Chris NODDING OFF Crich Keswick Tramway Pencil 15 Ben Wheatley Museum Blue John Lakeside of his first victim, while Certificate Director Cavern Museum Starring Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, ZZZZZZZZZ... Tina’s attempt to talk dirty Jonathan Aris, Richard Glover Screenplay Alice Lowe, results in: “He said he RUNNING TIME 0 18 35 53 70 88 Steve Oram, Amy Jump Distributor Studiocanal wanted to shit in my hand Running time 88 mins 56 | Total Film | January 2013 Subscribe at www.totalfilm.com/subs TFM201.screen_sight.indd 56 11/6/12 11:52 AM.

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