Five-Minute Films (1975)

Recommended

UK

Television Series

Writer/Director: Mike Leigh

Cinematographer: Brian Tufano

Cast: Antony Carrick, David Casey, Billy Colvill, Rachel Davies, Alan Gaunt, Richard Griffiths, Margaret Heery, Richard Ireson, Pauline Moran, Julie North, Herbert Norville, Lally Percy, Robert Putt, Celia Quicke, Tim Stern, Theresa Watson

Five-Minute Films is a series of shorts, primarily exploring the way that people exist in their own little worlds, unaware of the thoughts and feelings of those around them.

The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final is an amusing look at the differing attitudes towards parenting between the sexes.

Old Chums sees a chance encounter between two old friends, which results in a painfully one-sided conversation.

A young man convicted of various minor offences visits his probation officer in Probation.

The best of the bunch, A Light Snack, contains two parallel narratives that look at the way that people react to socially oblivious individuals who impose themselves onto them.

Two young women are enjoying a boozy afternoon until a newly-wed friend interrupts them in Afternoon. Iain.Stott