I have just come back from the Media Studies field trip to the Odeon Cinema in Guildford. As a group, we went to enjoy the fairly new film called Somers Town. This film was completed in 2008 and surprisingly took only a week to fully film and edit it. Shane Meadows was the director and Paul Fraser was the writer, as a team they put their ideas together, creating a film based on a young troubled teenager [Tomo - played by Thomas Turgoose (Known for This is England)] who has just moved from his home town in the midlands to the industrial part of London.
After a few days on his own, he finally meets another teen his age, a Polish teen [Marek - played by Piotr Jagiello] and as he also finds himself lonely during the day (his only parent goes to work everyday - leaving him at home and in the streets), therefore a sudden connection or friendship is made. They soon are fighting for the love of a french waitress working in a little coffee shop in town, she leaves them to go to Paris, her home town, without warning them.
In the end, they decide to travel across the channel to surprise her.
"Somers Town" is one of the sweetest little films of any festival this year. Shane Meadows ("This Is England"), directing from a strikingly authentic Paul Fraser script, has crafted a winner with so much to like that it's hard to know where to begin.
Reference: Review from Larry-411 (from the USA)
Awards:
1 Won [London Critics Circle Film Awards] - Young British Performer of the Year [Thomas Turgoose]
4 Nominations [British Independent Film Awards] - 1. British Independent Film Award
2. Best Actor [Thomas Turgoose]
3. Best Director [Shane Meadows]
4. Best Screenplay [Paul Fraser]
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