Daisy RB: A Field in England

[Gob]

Either seen it? Any good?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375574/

[Daisy]

No sorry, first I've heard of it.

I'll have a look

[Gob]

Cheers darling!!

[Reality Bytes]

Haven't seen it either, nor on further research is it one I'm likely to see - doesnt sound my kinda thing sorry.

[Rick]

The only review I could find:

What is a psychedelic historical drama, one might ask? Well, based on A Field In England, its as if an art student dropped acid, wrote a half baked and incomprehensible story about three deserters from the English Civil War who are forced to search and dig for buried treasure in a field- but with Deep Purple cast in the lead roles. There is much herky jerky camera work and a positively grating nu-folk score to go along with the graphic depictions of heads and limbs being blown off and men crapping in a field and displaying their private parts. All very original with some stunning visual poetry, but the intended metaphorical hell was more easily experienced in the watching of this movie rather than being inherent in the storyline itself.

and this from Wiki:

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that A Field in England was a "grisly and visceral" film that was "exposed to the elements, shivering with fever and discomfort". Bradshaw said that Wheatley has "cleverly alighted on the one period that suits his stripped-down visuals and subversive instincts perfectly".[15] Jonathan Romney of The Independent wrote that the film was Wheatley's "most unclassifiable yet, blending historical drama, 1960s psychedelia and formal experimentation". He said, "Flawed as it is, A Field in England is some achievement, drumming up an earthly inferno out of next to nothing—dirt and wind, a patch of land, some blokes with scraggy beards. The result, in a minor-key fashion, is a blast—Apocalypse Now among the hedgerows."[16]

Stephen Dalton, reviewing for The Hollywood Reporter, said, "A strikingly original historical thriller spiced with occult mysticism and mind-warping hallucinations, British director Ben Wheatley's fourth feature has all the midnight-movie intensity of a future cult classic." Dalton noted flaws in the film but said that beside them, A Field in England is a rich, strange, hauntingly intense work from a highly original writer-director team."[1] Peter Debruge of Variety called A Field in England "a defiantly unclassifiable cross-genre experiment... that simultaneously reinvents and regurgitates low-budget British cinema as it goes". Debruge said of the director's approach, "Clearly, Wheatley is bored with the paint-by-numbers approach of his horror contemporaries, but has swung so far in the opposite direction here, the result feels almost amateurishly avant garde at times, guilty of the sort of indulgences one barely tolerates in student films."[17]

[Lord Jim]

a half baked and incomprehensible story about three deserters from the English Civil War who are forced to search and dig for buried treasure in a field- but with Deep Purple cast in the lead roles. There is much herky jerky camera work and a positively grating nu-folk score to go along with the graphic depictions of heads and limbs being blown off and men crapping in a field and displaying their private parts.

Sounds like "great Holiday Season viewing for the whole family"....

[MajGenl.Meade]

Sounds like Glasto to me

(duck and cover)

[oldr_n_wsr]

Yet another reason not to go to the movies.

[Big RR]

I don't know, it could be interesting. And certainly a lot better than the average multiplex fare.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Khumba? Great movie!
Avg multiplex fare

[Big RR]

Great or not, you'll never get me to sit through a movie with that sort of CGI animation. For some reason it just bugs me.

[MajGenl.Meade]

'Tis a pity, Big RR. You've missed the Afrikaaner rugby-playing Blesbok trying to identify each other. I'm sure you don't really want to miss a snippet....



Mind if they have white arses, they might be Bontebok.

(Despite the Youchewb heading, I guess the film makers decided to picture the bigger Blesbok because Springbok are actually too small - fast and nimble but not muscular)