Skeletons

Director:

Nick Whitfield

Details:

UK | 2010 | 94 mins | Rated 15

Starring:

Andrew Buckley, Ed Gaughan, Jason Isaacs, Josef Whitfield, Paprika Steen, Tuppence Middleton

Links & Reviews:

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Synopsis

Actor turned writer/director, Nick Whitfield’s, feature debut won the Michael Powell Award for best new British feature at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival. Quintessentially English, the film’s central characters – Davis (Gaughan) and Bennett (Buckley) – exist in a surreal and timeless universe in which, under the watchful eye of their employer, the Colonel (hello to Jason Isaacs), they literally extract “skeletons”–hidden secrets and memories–from people’s cupboards.

“Skeletons” has been compared to “Withnail & I” and the Brokers Men-style characters of Davis and Bennett are certainly in the tradition of Hitchcock’s Charters & Caldicott from “The Lady Vanishes” or Denis Potter’s Mysterious Men from “The Singing Detective”. This genuinely ambitious and brightly original comedy proves that low budget and high concept can happily co-exist – and you might even wake up speaking Bulgarian into the bargain…