I am from Littlehampton and live here! Our cinema is currently closed due to a fire but I watched it in Arundel town hall (Arundel is where some of the scenes were filmed) I can confirm it was HILARIOUS in the cinema. The whole room was roaring with laughter. Could have had something to do with the wine that was being served 😆. Brilliant.
One trick pony! I refuse to watch it because of her name...all of these drama students graduating every year...yet olivia coleman seems to get all the roles..most probably without any auditions.
@@21capsules You really think she's cast without auditioning? Wow. You don't know much about stage or screen then. If by "one trick pony" you mean she's a tour de force in everything she does and can be funny, desperately sad or perfectly ordinary then yes. She's a one trick pony. An Oscar winning one trick pony. Most of the newbies out of drama school won't make it past the contractual one episode of Casualty or similar. Why? Because going to drama school doesn't make you any good. Talent is not learnt. Craft is learnt. The talent is just there. Or not. Olivia doesn't have to worry about the "or not" part.
It’s absolutely brilliant. In fact it’s better than expected. You warm to the characters. And I loved how Olivia Coleman’s character finally nails the perfect string of profanity at the end. But as Kermode says, try to see it at a busier showing.
Jessie Buckley is so talented acting, singing, dancing - and an ideal sparring partner for the great Olivia Coleman. Marks comments are fair and on point as usual.
It's a brilliant movie, ready to burst at any time with its characters' underlying tension. Laughing out loud with a sneaking undercurrent of desperation that ebbs and flows till the final crack, fantastically written, fabulously strong characters and razor sharp depicting. Best movie i have watched in a long time.
In the showing I went to there was a group of ladies sitting behind me that were gasping and "ooh"ing at the swearing which was funny in itself. I thought the film was really laugh out loud funny in places, and the audience I was in were laughing thoughout.
There isn't a Rustington on Sea Playhouse but they do put on films in the village hall. Usually a few months after they've done the rounds of cinemas. Wine and beer is served, which I thought was very civilised. Unfortunately, when we last went the projector broke, so we all had to traipse out without seeing the film which would have been Fisherman's Friends: One and All.
I think the promo/trailer made it look like a straightforward comedy. I found the film as a whole to be somewhat, depressing? There were definitely laugh-out-aloud moments, but the motivation behind the letters and the final resolution was quite sad for me. I'd say it's a comedy, but the opposite of a feel-good one, like The Grand Budapest Hotel (not to the same extent). Olivia and Jessie obviously had a whale of a time in it though.
Agreed. I was looking forward to the film in the trailer. The film in the film was an, er, ungodly mess. Jessie Buckley regularly abandons her child, Olivia Colman kills her mother, and Timothy Spall is horrendously controlling and abusive, for instance. Plenty of people seemed to enjoy it. Not for me at all though.
@@guest_informant Disagree about Jessie Buckley's character but agree about the rest. A large part of the film felt like it was a weight pressing down on me, and the catharsis, when it came, could be described as bittersweet at best. It was a realistic portrayl of that period, of course, just not what the trailer led me to believe.
@@guest_informant Thought it was a proper turkey given the quality of the cast. While I laugh at the impact of swear words this had the impact of Tourettes. Surprising racial mix in the cast too given it was apparently 1920s Littlehampton while the portrayal of the sweary Irish slut was a heck of a cliche. The ladies in my cinema seemed to like it, though. A couple of hours I regretfully won't get back.
It’s mad to think that some of this was filmed in Arundle & Worthing & set in Littlehampton which are three towns I’m sandwiched between, tbh Worthing does have places that are perfect for Cinematic shots
I remember when "Slapshot" was released in 1976/77(?) and a lot of the charm, aside from Paul Newman, was the unbridled swearing. Effing and blinding like had never been seen nor heard before.
Used to live in Littlehampton. Wondering what happened and if this will give a much needed boost. Hoping it can viewed at the reopened Windmill Theatre there, which was unfortunately damaged by a fire. As a matter of interest 'Open All Hours' was based on a shop in Littlehampton.
I was born and bought up in Littlehampton. I knew that shop as Mrs Coopers. It was on Norfolk Road just round the corner from Western Road where all this took place.
Saw it yesterday. place was full. was so much fun. Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley and everyone else played an absolute blinder here The plot isn't difficult to figure out. when it became apparent to me it ended up adding to the enjoyment. It's about people living in a stifling. controlling environment struggling to find their voice. Also Olivia Coleman is just really f***ing funny doing this
Possibly because it’s one of the worst scripts I’ve seen in years, setting all the actors up to fail, which they do, and treating the audience like lobotomy victims needing constant spoon feeding. And I wanted to like it.
I grew up in Rustington (not on sea, that's next door Angmering) and LA (li'l'ampton) in the sixties. LA was a nest of crime Both juvenile, petty and organised, drugs, underage sex and drinking, violence, street racing, TWOCing (joy riding) and lots of other anti-social behaviour. When I left and went to Liverpool I felt right at home.
Have seen the film extremely funny fantastic acting, nowhere was it smutty, it’s based on a true story and the letters were real. I went with my wife and daughter who is in her forty’s and it had all of us laughing out loud, especially at the end when the culprit was being taken to jail. It was also announced on screen after the film had finished that the culprit received one year’s jail term with hard Labour.
Saw it last night. excellent film with a fantastic cast at the top of their game. Loved the use of swearing. It had the same feel of a Blackadder script or even Yes Minister in the way it used dialogue.
Great performances from all the cast and I've fallen in love with Jessie Buckley but the film is very frustrating. It's almost as if its only a draft or so away from being very good and is making do with just being fair to middling.
Absolutely mental that the bbfc thinks a you need to 15 or even 18 years old to be capable or processing bad language. Are we really saying that's as potentially damaging as kids seeing extreme violence, sex or drug-taking...
I watched it on my own and nearly wet myself laughing. I was amazed at the Guardian's review. I thought it was cracking. All the characters were utterly hilarious. I love a good swear and found it very educational 😄
I saw it at an 'early' Showcase Insiders screening and it's definitely not the 'comedy' they advertised it as! It's mostly a mystery about who wrote the 'vile' letters. The weird swearing gets old after the first couple of times, and even in the audience only one bloke was laughing at all the swearing. There's certianly funny moments, but definitely none that made me laugh out loud.
After watch the trailer, I thought it had shown too much and was not going to see it. I’m glad I changed my mind, absolutely hilarious. The cast, Olivia Coleman is excellent proving why she’s a top notch actress, Jessie Buckley and particularly Timothy Spall are brilliant too. I guffawed throughout.
I met an old Doctor Who Sylevester McCoy at the Cineworld in Glasgow , he.was going into see this , i told him id already seen it and it is very funny, glad you agree.
Hugely entertaining comedy/drama i saw this week with Olivia Colman in sweary true life crime story that took place in Littlehampton in the 1920's. Timothy Spall is great as her overbearing uptight father and the supporting cast all good. I thought the best role though was Jessie Buckley's, who has the greatest acting range in the film. Sometimes predictable story and casting inaccuracies are the slightly weaker points but if you overlook these it's great fun.
Really enjoyed this. But not enough is said about the motivations for why the characters did what they did. It's not a straight forward knockabout comedy, and much of the film is swamped in sadness and pathos.
Found it watchable and amusing, but overall thought it tried too hard with the swearing. It works in a Thick of It context, but the jusxaposition of twee and anachronistic swearing didn't work for me.
Hi Mark, I never laughed once during the movie. Olivia Coleman just played Olivia Coleman. The language was used for cheap laughs, hardly a Chuckle from the audience in a very busy theatre 2/10
I found it awful and formulaic. The film diverges quite widely from the actual events and trials of the 1920s, and it is clealy a simplistic vehicle for star names and generating laughter against a certain 'type' of woman. Raised an eyebrow that it seems to be okay to stereotype Irish women as sweary and aggressive - in reality Rose Gooding was not Irish, and it is a questionable cliche why she is portrayed as one in this film. The real story is extremely interesting and thought provoking, and there are a few books currently in print which deal with the social issues in a far more intelligent way.
Probably the worst film I have ever seen on Netflix. Glad I did'nt pay to see it in the cinema. Factually inaccurate and the usual Coleman gabble. Just one big excuse to get as many obscene words into a film as possible. I agree Jessie Buckley gave a stellar performance. Waste of Timothy Spalls talent and I am a huge fan! Obviously somebody did not research the Littlehampton Police or police procedure of the 1920s I'll say no more. I love a good comedy but this was just utter rubbish.
The anachronistic casting took me by surprise and ended up irritating me. It would have been better as a serious film rather than a comedy, simply because it wasn't funny.
