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2009 Directed by Julian Jarrold
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A rookie journalist looks to solve the increasingly vexing case of a serial killer on the loose.
Cast
Andrew Garfield David Morrissey John Henshaw Anthony Flanagan Warren Clarke Jennifer Hennessy Mary Jo Randle Rachel Jane Allen Rita May Graham 'Grace' Walker Berwick Kaler Katherine Vasey Danny Cunningham Michelle Dockery Robert Sheehan Margaret Blakemore Eddie Marsan Daniel Mays Cara Seymour Peter Mullan
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Andrew Garfield really does go through it in this gruelling and often disturbing corruption drama. I lost count of how many times he gets a kicking in this. A gritty and complex story that starts with the disappearance of a little girl and her subsequent murder,this see's journalist Garfield stumble upon a bigger story. A stand-out cast of British actors that include Sean Bean,Warren Clarke,Rebecca Hall,Eddie Marsan and David Morrissey capture the look and mood of seventies Yorkshire. A drama that you definitely have to concentrate on this is well worth the watch and Garfield especially showed just what a good actor he really is.
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Stunning. Just absolutely stunning work.
From the opening, it grabs your attention and never lets go in a grip so powerful you never want to take your eyes away from the screen.
No spoilers here- go in with fresh eyes and come out bleary as you're cloaked in cigarette smoke and 70's dinginess, following Andrew Garfield's newspaper journalist Eddie Dunford trying to investigate two separate stories that inevitably interlink. One, suspected corruption and bribery in the police force and the other the brutal murders of three young girls.
You will share his pain and heartache and frustration; ever willing him on to oust all those involved and bring closure to the grieving. Only expect the wool to be pulled over…
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Eddie Dunford (played by Andrew Garfield) is a cub reporter on the Yorkshire Post who, whilst following up after the disappearance of young girls discovers serious corruption within the local police force. A dark, frightening story which looked very much like the 1970s and kept me gripped throughout.
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54th film of The December Project
The first of three movies dealing with a sprawling police investigation in Yorkshire, along with a dozen other suplots, stories and characters. The whole thing is kicked off when a little girl goes missing and our first main character, a journalist played by the always brilliant Andrew Garfield, thinks the disappearance can be linked to previous cases, believing this to be the work of a serial killer.
He's right, of course; people in crime stories usually are whenever they draw the "serial killer"-card.
But this film isn't about finding out who it is, or why, or how. This is about police corruption, life in the 70's English countryside, where the cops do what they…
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Little girl goes missing, the pack salivates. If it bleeds it leads, right?
-Eddie DunfordAndrew Garfield surprised the hell out of me in this. I had only seen him in The Social Network and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, both of which don't come close to displaying his acting skills like he did in this.
The movie is incredibly well shot and directed by Julian Jarrold. The tone of the film is perfectly captured from the beginning and doesn't let up till the end. It's a miracle that it didn't send me into a depression as it's very bleak.
The movie is sold as a serial killer movie, but the murders are almost just used as a backdrop for…
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What led me here was Julian Jarrold's "Appropriate Adult" and "The Girl", which is getting sideswiped for portraying "Alfie", in a perverse and sinister manner, that would probably make the old man grin dementedly. My hope that Jarrold is moving on to directing movies, is a contention undermined by all of his TV work. A director of TV films who decides to make visions i.e. proper movies; or is perhaps living in some delicious delusion, where he really believes "This is Hollywood"! I like that idea a lot. Similar to Edgar Wright filming a half hour comedy show, "Spaced- the sitcom!" as if they were genre pieces on screen. It makes the transition to "Shaun of the Dead" a lot…
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Wow. It's taken me a long while to get round to this but totally worth every second. Brutal, northern noir comprising of police corruption, serial killers and gang crime. Can't wait to crack on with the other two films.
"This is the north, we do what we want"
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Eddie Dunford (played by Andrew Garfield) is a cub reporter on the Yorkshire Post who, whilst following up after the disappearance of young girls discovers serious corruption within the local police force. A dark, frightening story which looked very much like the 1970s and kept me gripped throughout.
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Stunning. Just absolutely stunning work.
From the opening, it grabs your attention and never lets go in a grip so powerful you never want to take your eyes away from the screen.
No spoilers here- go in with fresh eyes and come out bleary as you're cloaked in cigarette smoke and 70's dinginess, following Andrew Garfield's newspaper journalist Eddie Dunford trying to investigate two separate stories that inevitably interlink. One, suspected corruption and bribery in the police force and the other the brutal murders of three young girls.
You will share his pain and heartache and frustration; ever willing him on to oust all those involved and bring closure to the grieving. Only expect the wool to be pulled over…
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This film paints an even less flattering image of northern UK police forces than its more innocent serial brother «Life on Mars». It's a dark corruption drama, with some horrible murders more or less as a side order.
I had seen this before, but it came as a rather big surprise to me that the lead was played by Andrew Garfield. He wasn't known to me the first time I saw the film, that is - before The Amazing Spider-Man. Of the murders we get to see little or nothing, the violence that takes place on screen are directed mostly towards our protagonist Eddie Dunford (Garfield). It is as an investigating journalist he gets in a little too deep and…
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Un thriller agridulce.
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What led me here was Julian Jarrold's "Appropriate Adult" and "The Girl", which is getting sideswiped for portraying "Alfie", in a perverse and sinister manner, that would probably make the old man grin dementedly. My hope that Jarrold is moving on to directing movies, is a contention undermined by all of his TV work. A director of TV films who decides to make visions i.e. proper movies; or is perhaps living in some delicious delusion, where he really believes "This is Hollywood"! I like that idea a lot. Similar to Edgar Wright filming a half hour comedy show, "Spaced- the sitcom!" as if they were genre pieces on screen. It makes the transition to "Shaun of the Dead" a lot…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Awesome, awesome detective story that gets everything right, from the transformation of idealism into desperation and/or hopelessness to almost giving Yorkshire a kind of old west appeal.
I was pissed because I didn't recognize Rebecca Hall as a blonde until like halfway through the movie and it was totally distracting because I felt like I had seen her somewhere before.