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5.6/10
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Svengali chronicles a wide-eyed Welshman's haphazard attempts to manage an unruly rock band up the ladder of success whilst keeping his love life firmly on track. Can he manage it?Svengali chronicles a wide-eyed Welshman's haphazard attempts to manage an unruly rock band up the ladder of success whilst keeping his love life firmly on track. Can he manage it?Svengali chronicles a wide-eyed Welshman's haphazard attempts to manage an unruly rock band up the ladder of success whilst keeping his love life firmly on track. Can he manage it?
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Jermaine Liburd
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The film is brilliant, so absorbing, great characters and storyline, awesome soundtrack and great British feelgood factor film! Great to see.Jonny & Vicky for the BAFTAS The film deserves massive success which I am sure it will gain. Can't wait for the sequel This is so the must see film of the year so far, if its coming to a town near you, you HAVE to get out and see it!!! Fantastic night, fantastic film. Gonna be a huge success. Well done all, you smashed it!!Great picture , nice touch the black and white. Great soundtrack as well, with tracks by Jake Bugg, Miles Kane, Mott The Hoople, The Stone Roses, Small Faces, Georgie Fame, The High Numbers, The Jesus and Mary Chain and many more!
I bought a package of random films, and Svengali was in it. Having read the cast list I was instantly invested, with such performers as Martin Freeman and Matt Berry I couldn't wait to start watching.
And then the film started.
And I couldn't wait to stop watching. One of the most unwatchable films I've ever seen, and I watch a lot of bad movies. Jonny Owen as Dixie was utterly unlikable to me, and his performance was less enjoyable than nails on a chalk board.
I say avoid this film at all costs.
And then the film started.
And I couldn't wait to stop watching. One of the most unwatchable films I've ever seen, and I watch a lot of bad movies. Jonny Owen as Dixie was utterly unlikable to me, and his performance was less enjoyable than nails on a chalk board.
I say avoid this film at all costs.
Great cast. That was all that was good about it. Thought it was going to be a feel good film, but it had a poor slow storyline, not funny, not gritty just a slow boring film that didn't even have a feel good ending!! Why did I waste my time
Maybe I was mesmerised by 'the accents', but It's a Comedy Movie which I enjoyed watching. However, the ending was a bit flat.
I waited with eager anticipation of this film, I myself have been a MOD for 40+ years and the build up surrounding this film it was being likened to Quadrophenia it was nowhere near
How disappointed i was, the main character 'Dixie'although wearing a Parka and MOD T-Shirt and telling us he was a MOD resembled no genuine MOD i have ever seen scruffy unkempt hair and walking around thru out the whole film with a tatty Tesco shopping Bag
OK to the film the plot was very thin Scruffy Mod comes to big city to manage a band any band don't matter that its not a MOD band again hard to believe
I could not connect with any of the characters there was nothing to them very superficial i couldn't empathise with any of them sorry 4/10 for me
How disappointed i was, the main character 'Dixie'although wearing a Parka and MOD T-Shirt and telling us he was a MOD resembled no genuine MOD i have ever seen scruffy unkempt hair and walking around thru out the whole film with a tatty Tesco shopping Bag
OK to the film the plot was very thin Scruffy Mod comes to big city to manage a band any band don't matter that its not a MOD band again hard to believe
I could not connect with any of the characters there was nothing to them very superficial i couldn't empathise with any of them sorry 4/10 for me
Did you know
- TriviaThe Don's Records scene is filmed at Out on the Floor Records, Inverness Street, Camden.
- GoofsWhen Dixie is getting on the train to go back to London from Wales, the time can clearly be seen on the electronic board as 11.02am. As the train pulls out, a different board shows a partially obscured time, but one which is clearly just after 10am.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Soccer AM: Episode dated 1 March 2014 (2014)
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- $14,482
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- 1h 33m(93 min)
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