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Close To The Enemy - New Stephen Poliakoff Drama On BBC 2 Tonight at 9pm
New 7 part period drama from Stephen Poliakoff set at the end of WW II. Starring Jim Sturgess, Angela Bassett, Lindsay Duncan, Alfred Molina and others. Let's hope it's not as pretentious as his other dramas.
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New 7 part period drama from Stephen Poliakoff set at the end of WW II. Starring Jim Sturgess, Angela Bassett, Lindsay Duncan, Alfred Molina and others. Let's hope it's not as pretentious as his other dramas.
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It looks great. Jim Sturgess accent sounds weird.
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It looks great. Jim Sturgess accent sounds weird.
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It looks great. Jim Sturgess accent sounds weird.
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Sounds like a combination of Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor.
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Sounds like a combination of Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor.
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This just seems to be a colour by numbers series of wartime stereotypes. Let's have some kids on bomb sites, a rundown hotel with wandering melancholic hookers, some black marketeers, some jive music and a sassy American "broad". Unless Arthur Lowe and the boys crop up, I'm gonna lose interest.
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It's a sort of mash-up of Cary Grant and James Mason.
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Enjoyed that. Just my thing.
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The Guardian said he sounds like Roger Moore.
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Were there really still blackshirts around in 1946?
I hope the little girl is about to be abducted by "Mr Emmanuel" and not seen again, as I'm sick of her already. And I wonder how easy it was to buy nice new dresses in the shops in 1946. I thought the guy would more likely ask his relatives for some cast-offs for her. |
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Were there really still blackshirts around in 1946?
I hope the little girl is about to be abducted by "Mr Emmanuel" and not seen again, as I'm sick of her already. And I wonder how easy it was to buy nice new dresses in the shops in 1946. I thought the guy would more likely ask his relatives for some cast-offs for her. |
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Love Poliakoff. Enjoyed this a lot.
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The 'jet engine design' plot line was a bit weak, the UK was arguably the world leader in the technology at the time. 'Rocket engine' would be better, with the added edge that German rocket engineers were working with forced labour, which would make the War Crimes woman's interest in the engineer more significant.
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Love Poliakoff. Enjoyed this a lot.
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As usual with Poliakoff an exercise in style over substance. Emperors New Clothes.
If the Beeb are looking to make budget cuts then Poliakoff is a good place to start. |
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More beautiful than anything else on at the moment, slower and more thoughtful. Axe the budgets for everything else and keep this.
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So far so very good!
![]() Anyone have an idea where the 'hotel' is filmed? Beautiful rooms. |
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Excellent, as with all Poliakoff, although I have often heard him criticised for being 'too intellectual' and insufficiently 'accessible'.
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Were there really still blackshirts around in 1946?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britis..._Ex-Servicemen |
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Anyone have an idea where the 'hotel' is filmed? Beautiful rooms.
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I love it so far.
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It's fairly familiar territory for Poliakoff and watchable enough but it's clumsily directed (by him) and Jim Sturgess is woeful in the central role, playing it like a caricature which undermines all the rest of the piece. I'll keep watching to the end because SP is undoubtedly a true artist and I've loved nearly everything else he's done (although I wouldn't care if every copy of Friends and Crocodiles and The Tribe were destroyed by fire) but I'm underwhelmed and after the week we've all had I was hoping this would be a resounding pick-me-up which it wasn't.
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Not sure what I'm looking at but I'll keep working away. It's not exactly The Missing, is it ....
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