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amy revill

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2017

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Hillman

Painfully Poor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2018

This is awful - paints an unnatural picture of 'gay' London as fuelled by drugs, drink, casual sex and dysfunctional lives.
Cinematically I've seen better quality filming from bored sixth formers, out for a weekend with a cheap camera. The lighting is atrocious, the acting is immature, people don't drive on the right hand side of the road, continuity doesn't exist. Example: you don't arrive at a petrol station in the early hours, miles from nowhere with no cars on the forecourt to find a queue inside! The whole film is amateur.
This is shockingly poor.

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Hillman

Painfully Poor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2018

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Ms. S. Scanlon

Terrible!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2013

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I wouldn't bother with this at all. There was no storyline and we didn't even finish watching it because we got tired of waiting for a storyline to magically appear. A complete waste of money.

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Janet Young

Don't waste your time watching this!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2015

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Pretty awful film. I stuck by it to the end thinking there must be something more to it than this but sadly no it was just rubbish.

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jane

One Star

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2015

rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2017

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Noella

Appalling... dont waste your time or money!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2012

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I dont usually leave bad reviews as to be honest I can usually find one good thing about a film, but unfortunately I seriously have nothing good to say about this one and I wouldnt want anybody else to waste their time watching any of it. 45 minutes of my life Im never getting back! For a start, the acting is seriously appalling! Used to the acting in some lesbian films being a bit dodgy, but these characters are completely 2D and uninteresting. The narrative is trying to hard to be edgy and challenging (its acutally just boring) and in the end we turned off the film half way through. Very disappointing! Dont waste your money! There are plenty of other better UK lesbian films.

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Jaxeeee

My eyebrows were aching from being raised so much

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2011

This film had me on an emotional roller coaster from the outset, my eyebrows were aching from being raised so much. Yes it's about the death throws of a relationship, yes everyone behaves badly and the story works on us by being familiar yet utterly surprising at the same time. It could be billed as a psychological thriller. It's a far cry from schmaltzy coming out stories and a welcome step into gritty lesbian lives, no heroines, no apologies. Great film, watch it!

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Tommy Dooley

London, Lesbian, Weekend Flick ( oops, I mean Film!)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2011

This had so many good reviews that I was sure I was gonna love it, (most of the reviews on this page seem to have only reviewed this film !? Draw from that what you will). It tells the story of Liza and Sally (Kat Redstone and Sophie Anderson), they have been together for a while and are even in a band together. They have best mates with Jamie and Vin (the latter is a cheap rent boy). They are at a stage in their relationship where love has become obsession and the passion that once drove everything has begun to suck the oxygen out of their lives. In short they are heading for a break up.

This is fuelled by what the cover calls a `hedonistic' lifestyle. If getting off your head and listening to faux post punk music is hedonistic, then I would agree. At one stage Liza says "there is a whole other world of people that go to bed at night and get up in the morning" just to emphasise how `hedonistic' they are really being. The music they listen to and play is a constant through out and is heavily influenced by all girl band `The Raincoats', who are actually played on vinyl at one point, and the likes of `Wire' and even `The Fall'.

As the relationship heads for the dumpster of love with an inexorable pull, the drug usage, toilet usage and swearing are ramped up. All of that is fine and believable, which is the major strengths of this film - it is very honest. Where it does fall down is in the pacing, at 102 minutes I felt that this could have been improved by being a bit shorter, at one point I was thinking I do not need a lingering shot of nigh on a minute of someone looking upset, to realise that she is actually upset - we get it already.

Also there is only one bedroom scene and that too is a bit on the tame side, but is used to drive the narrative. There are some very touching moments and some good performances. This has been written, directed and produced by Kanchi Wichmann and is a first effort. For all that praise is indeed due, but that could have led to the slowness of pace in places, some outside objectivity might have helped. Still there are not enough gay let alone lesbian films, so I wish the whole team the very best with the next outing, but for me this was just Ok, hence the three stars, quite nearly four for the urban street shots of London and some good camera work.

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Plethora

Deserves a wide release

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2011

I saw this at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and am looking forward to seeing it again on DVD and in the cinema. It's a moving portrayal of friendship and of a relationship in breakdown, and funny (in a squirmy 'I've been there' way) too. It shows the East London I know and love/hate and reminded me of my own (straight) years in my 20s (and 30s) - crappy jobs you don't care about, awkward social occasions where everyone's supposed to be having fun, weird one-night stands with people you don't have a lot in common with. In spite of or because of the gunge and abuse the main characters are still likeable and I rooted for them and wanted them and their mates to be happy.

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VVS

in and out of love in east london

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2011

break my fall is an intelligent london indie film that starts where most love stories in films end: when you have to deal with every day reality, when less appealing habits emerge from the cloudy, love-stung sphere, when jealousy creeps in and the lightness disappears. but this is not all heavy stuff - we're sucked into the hedonistic fun loving life style of this east london couple as if we're a bunch of friends, allowed to come up close to follow a few days of their life. liza and sally are a great couple to the outside, they listen to good music, play in bands and have a lazy slant that enables them to party more and work less. but at home they become increasingly more alone together. drifting apart, they fight to deny things have changed. it's a gradual and irreversible development, and none of their friends seem to be able to grasp what is going on. perhaps my favourite scene is at a warehouse party they are joining together and immediately lose sight of each other. break my fall is full of funny one liners, and some of linklater's SLACKERS comes to mind as no one struggles to get a grip. i've not often seen such a truthful and honest portrayal of a break up, of east london right now - shot with a handheld camera with an eye for beauty where you least expect it.

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