Archive of films Charlie / Charlie
United Kingdom
2003, 94 min
Section:
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
Year: 2004
Tough, violent drama based on the true story of a ´60s London hoodlum, starring former boyband Bros star Luke Goss.
Synopsis
The catalogue of nasty British films about nasty British gangsters gains a powerful, very unsettling entry with Charlie, an offbeat biopic about ´60s London hoodlum Charlie Richardson and his notorious "terror gang." Pic is led by a magnetic performance from former boyband Bros star Luke Goss, and has an outlook that teeters perilously between damning and excusing Richardson´s past. This gritty, violent second feature by writer-director Malcolm Needs is set during the same period as the 1990 movie, The Krays, when working-class gangs evolved during the economic stringency of post-WWII Britain. Pic follows Charlie (Goss) and his brother Eddy (Langley Kirkwood) as they carve out a south London empire based on extortion and dodgy business deals.
Derek Elley
Contacts
Equator Films
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United Kingdom
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British Council
United Kingdom
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About the film
Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Section: | Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! |
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Director: | Malcolm Needs |
Screenplay: | Malcolm Needs |
Dir. of Photography: | Zoran Veljkovic |
Music: | Stephen W. Parsons |
Editor: | Jeremy Gibbs, Toby Yates |
Producer: | Tim Ireland, Malcolm Needs |
Production: | Mida Films |
Cast: | Luke Goss, Steven Berkoff, Langley Kirkwood |
Contact: | Equator Films, British Council |
Guests
Paul Howson
Film Institution Rep.