Somers Town (2008)

Recommended

UK
Feature Film
Director: Shane Meadows
Writer: Paul Fraser
Cinematographer: Natasha Braier
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson, Elisa Lasowski, Kate Dickie

This small, gentle film from Meadows – a touching account of a burgeoning friendship between a gobby, homeless, Nottingham teenager and a quiet, sensitive Polish boy in the eponymous area of London, and their brief encounter with an attractive French waitress – is probably the midlander’s funniest film to date, and perhaps even his most beautiful and moving, though far from his most powerful. Iain.Stott