Very good in parts (in others, I wish like I did with Dancing on the Edge, that someone would take Poliakoff aside and say ‘No, don’t do that’).
Yes, I felt much the same about "Dancing On The Edge". Bit disappointed in that one actually. The promotional material made it sound like such a good idea, but in the event, rather than being about a black jazz band in white Britain, it wound up being about white people who just happened to meet a jazz band once. It also suffered from that dreadful trope where white people teach black people how to fight racism. Terrific performances though, particularly from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tony Head. Great soundtrack, too.
Have you seen much of Poliakoff's earlier stuff? I found I got annoyed with him far less back then. "Perfect Strangers" is terrific, and I love "Caught On A Train". Nice atmospheric piece from back in the days when the BBC still did one off plays, that actually looked like plays, rather than films.
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Date: 2013-08-18 06:56 pm (UTC)Yes, I felt much the same about "Dancing On The Edge". Bit disappointed in that one actually. The promotional material made it sound like such a good idea, but in the event, rather than being about a black jazz band in white Britain, it wound up being about white people who just happened to meet a jazz band once. It also suffered from that dreadful trope where white people teach black people how to fight racism. Terrific performances though, particularly from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tony Head. Great soundtrack, too.
Have you seen much of Poliakoff's earlier stuff? I found I got annoyed with him far less back then. "Perfect Strangers" is terrific, and I love "Caught On A Train". Nice atmospheric piece from back in the days when the BBC still did one off plays, that actually looked like plays, rather than films.