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Two fractured souls. A million blinding lights.
A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.
Away
2016 Directed by David Blair
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"Leaving Las Vegas", except set in the Vegas of North West England!
Blackpool has never looked so beautiful, and it's a treat to watch Spall and Temple play off one another.
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Away is a film which has a lot going for it. Set in a wintery Blackpool, this drama focuses on the friendship between widower Joseph (Timothy Spall) and Rita (Juno Temple). a prostitute on the run from her violent pimp. Both characters are trying to escape from the harsh reality of their lives. Joseph is a widower who doesn't want to go on after his wife's death. Rita wishes to ecape from her troubled life on the streets .
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Can Hayley Squires stop going through hell in films please? She had to endure it in I, Daniel Blake and she endures it again here in Away. So, in her next role, can she have some happiness for a change?
I was sold on this by the cast and the setting of Blackpool, the northern seaside resort that's approximately an hour away from me and the place I stayed for many a holiday as a child. I wasn't totally sure what to expect from Away beyond a spring and autumn odd couple style story. That's certainly what's being sold in the poster, which sees a tux-wearing Timothy Spall next to a sullen looking Juno Temple appearing somewhat out of her…
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Can't really fault the performances which are compelling, lived in, emotional and truthful depictions of these people. But the writing often borders on melodramatic and chooses cliché devices to forward the narrative. Although the shuffled nature of it is used to good effect at times by cleverly revealing details to illuminate the storytelling experience, it is more often than not a hindrance to the pacing and pathos.
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“Juno Temple and Timothy Spall deliver terrific performances in this misery-drenched seaside drama that struggles to overcome its frustrating structure.”
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It’s weird and long, and I have no idea what order anything happened in but it’s beautiful and sad and well made.
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A suicidal widower and a abused young women strike up a unlikely friendship while in Blackpool escaping there demons, Decent Brit thriller
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What an exquisitely pitched note perfect film. Such a fabulous contrast of gorgeous visuals with sordid reality, and great grounded performances from both Juno Temple and Timothy Spall.
It was fairly predictable right until the final act but I didn't mind the predictability so much. Would I have resolved the conflict in that precise way? Probably not but I can appreciate the beauty and symmetry of choice.
The temporal structure caught me somewhat off guard at the start but I got that sorted out in my head soon enough. And I particularly loved the symmetry of the final scene with an earlier one.
Also that was pretty wonderful soundtrack with one particular song I promptly hunted down and added to a playlist.
I adore Timothy Spall so much.
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Away is a small film of which absolutely nothing was expected ... and so I was rather surprised by film's when I found myself actually caring a bit about some of these characters.
Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies) and Juno Temple (Atonement) play a mis-matched pair who stumble upon each other in an hour of need in the seaside town of Blackpool while "on the run" from something from their past. What they have been running from finds them and while neither of them may be able to escape/overcome on their own, they stand a decent chance of doing so together.
Spall and Temple are both rather low-key here and they play off of each other surprisingly well.
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The timeline is very messy but this movie is so beautiful aesthetically and emotionally and juno temple is just the most charming person alive it's true it's true
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There are 3 things that will constantly wage war for your eyeballs' attention throughout your viewing of Away:
1. The intoxicating use of colorful lighting, often blues and greens, which are usually sourced from the environment (carnival rides, moonlit nights) instead of simply via phony filters or digital grading.
2. Juno Temple's oversized ears which are normally hidden beneath a haystack of frizzy hair. She wears it up for the whole film this time giving us a look at a pair of perfectly shaped Cyrano grade lobes, man they are big and they are beautiful.
3. Timothy Spall's impressive curtain of droopy neck skin, elevating him into an elite pantheon of chinlessness.I love that Temple remains aggressively indie in…
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What an exquisitely pitched note perfect film. Such a fabulous contrast of gorgeous visuals with sordid reality, and great grounded performances from both Juno Temple and Timothy Spall.
It was fairly predictable right until the final act but I didn't mind the predictability so much. Would I have resolved the conflict in that precise way? Probably not but I can appreciate the beauty and symmetry of choice.
The temporal structure caught me somewhat off guard at the start but I got that sorted out in my head soon enough. And I particularly loved the symmetry of the final scene with an earlier one.
Also that was pretty wonderful soundtrack with one particular song I promptly hunted down and added to a playlist.
I adore Timothy Spall so much.
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Takes a while for it all to come together, but it's kind of sweet with an emotional ending.
Spall is the real-life Droopy.
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Somebody calls Juno a waif in this movie and I'm kind of offended by how on-the-nose that line was
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Away is a film which has a lot going for it. Set in a wintery Blackpool, this drama focuses on the friendship between widower Joseph (Timothy Spall) and Rita (Juno Temple). a prostitute on the run from her violent pimp. Both characters are trying to escape from the harsh reality of their lives. Joseph is a widower who doesn't want to go on after his wife's death. Rita wishes to ecape from her troubled life on the streets .
Well made film with moving performances. -
"Leaving Las Vegas", except set in the Vegas of North West England!
Blackpool has never looked so beautiful, and it's a treat to watch Spall and Temple play off one another.
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“Juno Temple and Timothy Spall deliver terrific performances in this misery-drenched seaside drama that struggles to overcome its frustrating structure.”
Full review on VODzilla.co. -
It’s weird and long, and I have no idea what order anything happened in but it’s beautiful and sad and well made.
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