{"id":591,"date":"2007-04-27T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/27\/this-is-england\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T21:06:56","slug":"this-is-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/04\/27\/this-is-england\/","title":{"rendered":"This is England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Meadows<\/a> again proves that he is one of the most exciting directors working in British cinema with this tale of a skinhead gang in the early 1980s. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>When a young boy named Shaun (Thomas Turgoose<\/a>) is picked on at school he joins a skinhead gang where he finds friendship and a new sense of identity. As the gang is gradually taken over by more racist members, he starts to learn harsh lessons about his new friends.<\/p>\n

Set amidst the backdrop of the Falklands War<\/a> in the early 1980s<\/a>, it manages to make some powerful parallels to the present day<\/a> whilst brilliantly recreating the period itself with a varied, affecting soundtrack and a telling eye for detail.<\/p>\n

It also features some truly remarkable performances. In the lead role of Shaun, young Thomas Turgoose gives an impressively mature turn that never slips in to sentimentality. As Combo, Stephen Graham<\/a> is scarily convincing, giving a brilliantly intense performance as the racist leader of the gang.<\/p>\n

A lot of British films get stuck in the dim drawing rooms of Merchant-Ivory<\/a> or the phoney gangster chic of Guy Ritchie<\/a>, so it is a joy to see a British filmmaker retain his own voice like this. A deeply moving rites-of-passage story, it also reconfirms Meadows as one of the most accomplished and distinctive directors currently working.<\/p>\n

> Visit the official site<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry for This is England
\n<\/a>> <\/a>Excellent Shane Meadows fansite with a lot of detail on This is England<\/a>
\n> Mark Kermode interviews Shane Meadows for The Culture Show on BBC2<\/a>
\n> Buy the wonderful soundtrack at Amazon UK
\n<\/a>> Jon Savage with an interesting Sight and Sound article on the film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shane Meadows again proves that he is one of the most exciting directors working in British cinema with this tale of a skinhead gang in the early 1980s. When a young boy named Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is picked on at school he joins a skinhead gang where he finds friendship and a new sense of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}