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...particularly inspiring and reminiscent of the energy of Acoustic Alchemy's 1987 release, Red Dust and Spanish Lace. The flute solo generally follows the patterns set by those of the other two instruments. This repitition, however, becomes grating, and the piece begins to sound something like the old USA Cinema theme...
...dismal urban landscape carry a carefully calculated moral weight, and their story is clearly intended as a microcosmic portrait of contemporary English life. So call it, perhaps, a fable on the sneak. And call it something else too: yet another carefully handmade ornament of the new British cinema, which includes such small recent marvels as My Beautiful Laundrette; Rita, Sue and Bob Too; Withnail and I and Wish You Were Here...
Leigh, whose rigorous improvisational techniques have made him a guru of British theater (Goose-Pimples) and TV (Abigail's Party) for two decades, brings to his work the same anti-Thatcher animus that energizes much of today's British cinema. But unlike Laundrette and the rest, High Hopes derives much of its energy and some of its best comic strokes from a conscious, open acknowledgment that to be postmodern is also to be post-Marxist. In a time when people rise and fall freely, unhindered by traditional class structures, they become, according to Leigh, quite unhinged by their inability...
...CINEMA: High Hopes takes on Thatcherism...
...Cinema...