Northern Crescent

TV Movie
1992
1h 42m

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Peter West becomes the headmaster of a school where most of the pupils are Asian. Feelings turn sour when he refuses to allow halal meat to be served, as he believes the children should inte... Read allPeter West becomes the headmaster of a school where most of the pupils are Asian. Feelings turn sour when he refuses to allow halal meat to be served, as he believes the children should integrate fully with the English way of life.Peter West becomes the headmaster of a school where most of the pupils are Asian. Feelings turn sour when he refuses to allow halal meat to be served, as he believes the children should integrate fully with the English way of life.

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Sheila Allen

Ishan Bhabha

Murad

Paul Bhattacharjee

Khalid

Kulvinder Ghir

Ian Hogg

Peter West

Talat Hussain

Salim

Kuldip Korotana

Taxi Driver
(as Carlos Korotana)

Cliff Parisi

Alyson Spiro

Jane
(unconfirmed)

Philip Voss

Education Chief

Director
- Faris Kermani
Writers
- David Cohen
- Faris Kermani
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fmadden

Best child acting in years...

This film, while shot from a transgendered camera, tells the story of a liminalized public space. The politic of the major players is their downfalls, tracing out a remarkable arc of mise en scene in the sketch streets of London. Community is indeed performed, by dint of its project, which seeks to essentialize a historical diegetic.

The champion of this film is the sulking, preening 10-year old Ishan Bhabha, the young Indo-Jewish starlet who makes his debut here. The camera takes every opportunity to portray this young rapscallion as a dark, swarthy other, a delicate cherry blossom writ large. The final, climactic hash bar scene, in which Bhabha utters the phrase, "Daddy, I agree, but I'm busy now, I just got to the base, and there are a lot of dudes here!" will forever echo in the hearts and minds of marginalized London youths.