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Old 16-09-2007, 04:04 PM
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Angela's Ashes.

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I would agree, Angela's ashes was so depressing also Song for a raggy boy i cried at that to it made you feel so down knowing that things like that really went on, although i have to say a very powerful film.

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Although they are two of my favourite films both Daylight (Eric Portman/Maxwell Reed/Ann Todd) and The Long Memory (John Mills) are not the happiest of movie experiences.

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Old 16-09-2007, 10:26 PM
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I read a review yesterday of the film This Filthy Earth( with Dudley Sutton ). I've not seen it but based on the extract included below I think I would nominate as 'most depressing British movie' sight unseen :-)

This Filthy Earth Review
111 minutes, UK (2001), 15
A downright mucky, low-budget film, with desperation and prejudice festering in an isolated rural community. Partly based on Émile Zola's classic, 'La Terre'

This Filthy Earth establishes its tone immediately: with mud, farmyard muck, piss, pus, and, notably, bull semen, which ends up all over the hand of heroine Francine (Palmer) as she helps a bull service her cow. Andrew Kötting's first fictional feature, (he previously made the award-winning documentary Gallivant), is set in an isolated rural community, a filthy netherworld where an ancient tractor represents the height of technology.
This sounds as if it should be shown as a double-bill with Cold Comfort Farm.
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Old 16-09-2007, 10:33 PM
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Trainspotting.
What was truly depressing about that was that some of the types depicted regarded it as a celebration and affirmation of their lifestyle, as a family member who worked with trying to get them back on the straight-and-narrow told me.
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Old 17-09-2007, 12:27 PM
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Children of Men

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid - mainly because it was depressing that such a load of pretentious tripe got funding over other more worthy films.
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Last Holiday was pretty depressing. I haven't seen the Queen Latifah 'remake' but I'm sure that's depressing too, for different reasons naturally.
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Old 17-09-2007, 03:51 PM
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Although they are two of my favourite films both Daylight (Eric Portman/Maxwell Reed/Ann Todd) and The Long Memory (John Mills) are not the happiest of movie experiences.

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I think you will agree that it is the subject matter that is depressing and not the films. Incidently it is Daybreak and not "Daylight".
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Old 17-09-2007, 04:45 PM
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I think you will agree that it is the subject matter that is depressing and not the films. Incidently it is Daybreak and not "Daylight".
Oops .... it is indeed Daybreak, and it is the subject matter in the main that makes them depressing, especially when coupled with a heavy dose of melancholy which runs through both films.

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Self-pity, whining, posturing and misery....ugh....

It makes life in Britain look like a nightmare - and not even an exciting nightmare - just a drab, grey, dull-as-dishwater nightmare....
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If we're going to mention Rita Tushingham, then we can't forget her appearance in Peter Collinson's seminal Hammer effort STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING (1972) possibly the grimmest, bleakest, saddest and most misanthropic film I have ever seen in my life, without a single character one can identify with. It hasn't dated well, but then again I like all that 67-73 psychedelic stuff anyway, so that's fine.

BRONCO BULLFROG is quite depressing too, but in a quirkier way. And how about THE PUMPKIN EATER? Not exactly a barrel of laughs from where I stood...
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If we're going to mention Rita Tushingham, then we can't forget her appearance in Peter Collinson's seminal Hammer effort STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING (1972) possibly the grimmest, bleakest, saddest and most misanthropic film I have ever seen in my life, without a single character one can identify with. It hasn't dated well, but then again I like all that 67-73 psychedelic stuff anyway, so that's fine.

BRONCO BULLFROG is quite depressing too, but in a quirkier way. And how about THE PUMPKIN EATER? Not exactly a barrel of laughs from where I stood...
Oh, The Pumpkin Eater! Very well acted - but oh, all that self-absorbed depression.
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It makes life in Britain look like a nightmare - and not even an exciting nightmare - just a drab, grey, dull-as-dishwater nightmare....
It is !!!!!!

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Angelas Ashes.
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It is !!!!!!

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There is a certain "look" that movie had - it's found in several films that came out of Britain in the 1950s and early 60s. Everything is made to seem ugly and lifeless in the lives of the characters and in their environment. It must have reflected something real in British life, but only one aspect of it. The unrelenting grimness is so one-sided that it is draining just to watch it.
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A Yank in Ermine

should have been better - John Paddy Carstairs source material, relaible Brit support players but Harold Lloyd Jnr simply carry the thing, colours garish and technical side very dim. The support cast - Joan Sims, Jon Pertwee, Sid James et al all work hard but the 'Yank' scuppers it. A depressing spectacle.
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