l rentinck nackt sorted by

relevance

This film, Mike Leigh's incomparable, unprecedented masterwork, cured me of that fantasy.

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

In my adult life, this is the one and only film that has ever moved me to tears with its ending.

So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not fuckin' bored.

: So what happened, were you bored in Manchester? An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

He said, and did, in two hours, all that I could have hoped to achieve in an entire career, and it became gapingly obvious to me that I had no business in this medium.

The naked and the lost, the wandering spectre of the sentient living dead, and the pitiful yet mercifully ignorant companions that cross his path.

It was like watching Michelangel applying his final daub to the Sistene Chapel, the incomprehensible achievement of a perfect artistic vision, and the attainment of a transcendent brilliance.