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BRITAIN FALLING – Four weeks of dark UK cinema: This Is England (2006)📅 Thursday, November 12th | 🕗 8:00 PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
Week two takes us to the Midlands in 1983. Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is twelve, bullied at school, and his dad has just been killed in the Falklands. A gang of skinheads takes him in: friendly, funny, into ska and Doc Martens, and suddenly he has a family. Then Combo (Stephen Graham) gets out of prison, and his version of skinhead is National Front politics, racism and violence. Shaun has to choose which side he's on.
Shane Meadows found Turgoose, who'd never acted before, and his performance is astonishing. Stephen Graham is terrifying and, worse, sometimes sympathetic. It won the BAFTA for Best British Film and spawned three TV sequels that many people rank among the best British drama ever made. It's warm until it isn't, and it's about how easily lonely kids get pulled in by the wrong people.
"Masterfully charted and acted."
– Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"A small film that packs a big wallop."
– Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
📽 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480025/
📽 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/this-is-england/
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Event venue
TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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