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love the film. Don't say this to try and take it down, but is david thewlis character not a misogynist? He skirts the line of r@pe repeatedly, he seems to enjoy toying and testing women, floating in his intellect to avoid any counter punches. I guess he does this with male characters too. a grim and captivating protagonist

Nice!!!

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Mr Dunkacino himself

I had never seen it when I first heard the infamous rant sampled during a compilation mix album by Orbital. From there I found out what film it was from. Definitely one of my favourite British films of all time.

Thanks for introducing these films! Can't wait to check them out.

Great films are always very simple stories and extremely well written e.g. Bicycle Thief by V. De Sica. The perpetual feeling of hopelessness and paranoia really reminded me of the Italian film and it’s connection with the German drama.

@1:50 'No body walked from one end to other'. Are we discounting Shankara and Nanak?

"I'm simply not there"

ha ha - did they cut out the woman who interrupted about when she could ask a question? There's a gap where she should have been

to sort things out

strife, btw what your bastard need

Feel sorry for the student who mentioned naturalism. Zola would be turning right now. Mike Leigh really knows his beans. Great interview. The host is so gracious and lovely. Anyone wanting another interview with Mike Leigh - the Jarvis Cocker one is excellent also.

Arguably the finest drama ever to be broadcast on British television. Exploring themes of sexuality, nationalism, cold war paranoia, landscape, climate, art, mysticism, Paganism and radical interpretations of Christianity, Penda's Fen is the kind of avant-garde film-making that will likely never be seen on British television again. Endlessly rewatchable and eternally complex, it remains an all to rare testament to the transformative potential of visual media.

Rich criticism of 'professional actors' whose abilty to inhabit the roles which are th least endearing ? 😊

Amazing interview with Desiree, Cant wait to see her new work :} I loved seeing an insight into her work and writing

I watched the trailer, that's some orwellian level of propaganda

Congratulations Sir 🎉 Can't imagine the edit efforts

Hopelessly misses the central point. Who would know there was anything visionary or mystical about Penda's Fen from listening to this political irrelevancy. Awful.

He just created a MASTERPIECE and he seems so DOWN TO EARTH ! he inspires me so much in my film making career! ❤

My Summer Of Love, obviously 😊

Career Girls is one of his best! ”Ricky” (Mark Benton) is one of my all time favorite roles.

Great discussion! Desperate to see this film now!

What name film movie?

For some reason I'm distracted by the fact that if Leonie, in that outfit, veered into view on a laptop camera she would be easily recognisable.

An absolute master!

Delcious Snack? 😂😂

yeasss!

This is one of my favorite films by Mike. It’s severely underrated.

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Just joined on the recommendation of a fellow film nerd and looking forward to my first film tomorrow!

he'd make a great James Bond...Viva Ken Loach one of a very few directors who re-presents the working class with their dignity and humanity without patronizing them with 'comic bits' or reducing them to isolated psychological phenomena. Taking them from the margins to the centre. What Shakespeare is to King n Queens Loach is to those that do the work and produce the wealth.

What an amazing movie!

Is there anywhere this can be watched?

It is a tricky one to find , being shown. All of the play for today’s , I’d like to know. . Our monthly licences bought them. Where are they all? We have to pay again ? That seems unfair .

Very little that shows where t o watch . I have tried . So far failed . Where it’s meant to be available it isn’t . I shall persist . Which brought me here .

Brilliant interview, really enjoyed it

Besotted by this film❤

Thank you, that was so interesting!

#TheGardenCinema a movie by Mike Leigh is always a spark in the dark. A reminiscence of our vulnerable humanity in the darkness and the wilderness

The first Mike Leigh film I really got into. So incredibly real and the most brilliant character acting & dialogue. When I was at school me and my best mate knew virtually the whole script, seen it that many times 😂

Andrew Haigh is a tremendously intelligent man. I've seen 4 of his films. I've loved them all. Each one is special, one of a kind, a unique vision of the human condition which can never be set apart from pain and loss and love. Thank you Mr. Haigh without your films life would be even more lonely.

My colleague and I are doing a presentation at Bewdley Festival in October entitled 'Mired in Penda's Fen' ... please contact us if you can beforehand ... we were only 12 when we first saw it. You are our hero!

A great writer. I watched the first broadcast of PENDA'S FEN, when I was a student. Once seen, never forgotten

27:45. Beautiful

Did anyone else have a negative reaction to the ending? I loved the movie up til the last 5 minutes, which made it seem like it had all happened in the main character's head, "Mulholland Dr." style. That would mean not only did the parents not really exist as souls, but the really beautiful relationship that he built with his man didn't actually happen at all. I would prefer to think that they were all ghosts in purgatory, where those relationships would've at least have been real. Would love to be persuaded that I'm wrong, misunderstood the ending, something smart in response...Thanks!

*PURE AND LATENT LONELINESS!!!* - It's this gay being from the 80s, loaded with all forms of prejudice in the family, at school, etc., that permeated the time. This revisiting "his parents" was the catharsis that the character found (writing the script) to say who he became. Sad and lonely for years, without even being able to have a relationship with another man. Setback, the personification of Love appears in front of him, and wrapped in fears, traumas, and without realizing the speed of time, he gradually allows himself to be enchanted by the possibility of loving and letting himself be loved, of filling the void that the Human Being has as his greatest tragedy! But temporal cruelty, in the most vile and real way, because Death is the "game over", only glimpses the pleasure of having someone as the Central Character... The end, in the Darkness of Time, in a plane that opens up , we have maintained there in infinity, the multiplicity of finiteness, the plurality of All of us! It's to cry, yes..... 😥😥😥😥

And, YOU are one handsome man.

8:50 Everything was perfect, my god 😭