Black Pond
United Kingdom 2011, 83 mins
Director: Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Starring: Simon Amstell, Chris Langham
Director: Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Starring: Simon Amstell, Chris Langham
It's amazing what can be done on a limited budget if you have a fertile imagination, a good script and a talented cast.
BLACK POND probably cost the equivalent of a short lunch break on TRANSFORMERS 3, but its combination of wit, insight and humour make it an outstanding film, which deserves the widest possible audience.
The directors have fashioned a fractured narrative about a middle-aged couple, their two daughters, a young Japanese friend, a three-legged dog, and a man they meet in the nearby woods.
It is not so much what happens to them that is important as the impact it has on their lives and relationships and how they reflect on it as they look back.
Chris Langham is Tom Thompson, a man with little self-awareness but a good heart. Other cast members, such as Simon Amstell and Sophia Di Martino, are better known from TV, but the whole ensemble give faultless performances.
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