A Brixton Tale

Leah (Lily Newmark) uses her camera to film her everyday life. She falls for Benji (Ola Orebiyi). He's a poor black boy. His white friend Archie is sliding into drug troubles. Leah uses footage of Benji's street life into a film exhibition. The young couple starts pushing the boundaries into more troubling footage.

This indie is a first full length film for directors Darragh Carey and Bertrand Desrochers. I say full length in the most loose way. It's barely 75 minutes. The plot is thin. It doesn't have enough meat on the bone. What it does have is three pretty interesting performers. Lily Newmark is the most experienced and is suited to play quiet intensity looking for trouble. The guys have an interesting chemistry. The script just needs more to exceed its indie limitations.

Total and utter trash.

Camera work was hilarious, I'm not sure if there was a scriptwriter, acting was not acting.

Best way to have fun watching this is by playing idiot bingo, write down 40 words - phrases or slang terms that you've heard from the great uneducated, and Mark them off during this dross film. I won after 5 minutes with "bruv fam yegetme innit blud brapbrap yafeelme Mandem feds trippin pussyole feel-ya"

Seriously do not bother.

What I saw was a white girl objectifying a young black man and in her final edit, portrayed him with all the usual racial stereotypes when in fact he had presented himself in quite the opposite way from the beginning of their relationship. Couldn't finish it so there may have been some redeeming ending to the film but after an hour of fairly flat narrative with virtually no dialogue, it was difficult to stay interested.

Pretty breathless stuff. Amazing performances, they unearthed a few gems here with the casting.

Story hit pretty hard and was interesting look at the cost of content.

Some man won't get it, but some man be dumb.

If you like watching ordinary people do ordinary things for two hours, this is the film for you. Or you could just go sit at a coffee shop and stare at the tables. The effect will be the same. This movie maker might have a future if he pays attention to his mistakes, but he's not there yet. You can't make a good movie out of a bad script.