Locke (2013)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 85m
Director: Steven Knight
Cast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson
Synopsis:
A construction manager on the eve of the biggest concrete pour of his career prepares to spend the evening watching a football match with his wife and sons. Then a phone call changes everything.
Review:
The action is set inside the protagonist's BMW, alternating between a succession of hands-free telephone conversations and soliloquies delivered to the shade of his father, and like many ostensibly demanding viewing experiences, this is a gripping piece of filmed theatre from start to finish. The camerawork is multi-perspective and pin sharp in reduced light conditions, as we are by now used to from digital cameras; though perhaps the director goes to unnecessary lengths to render the material 'cinematic', with a shot of Hardy in the rear view mirror from outside the car, for example. As a man calmly determined to do the right thing by everyone, Hardy, in a softly accented Welsh voice, delivers a career best performance so far.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 85m
Director: Steven Knight
Cast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson
Synopsis:
A construction manager on the eve of the biggest concrete pour of his career prepares to spend the evening watching a football match with his wife and sons. Then a phone call changes everything.
Review:
The action is set inside the protagonist's BMW, alternating between a succession of hands-free telephone conversations and soliloquies delivered to the shade of his father, and like many ostensibly demanding viewing experiences, this is a gripping piece of filmed theatre from start to finish. The camerawork is multi-perspective and pin sharp in reduced light conditions, as we are by now used to from digital cameras; though perhaps the director goes to unnecessary lengths to render the material 'cinematic', with a shot of Hardy in the rear view mirror from outside the car, for example. As a man calmly determined to do the right thing by everyone, Hardy, in a softly accented Welsh voice, delivers a career best performance so far.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 85m
Director: Steven Knight
Cast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson
Synopsis:
A construction manager on the eve of the biggest concrete pour of his career prepares to spend the evening watching a football match with his wife and sons. Then a phone call changes everything.
Review:
The action is set inside the protagonist's BMW, alternating between a succession of hands-free telephone conversations and soliloquies delivered to the shade of his father, and like many ostensibly demanding viewing experiences, this is a gripping piece of filmed theatre from start to finish. The camerawork is multi-perspective and pin sharp in reduced light conditions, as we are by now used to from digital cameras; though perhaps the director goes to unnecessary lengths to render the material 'cinematic', with a shot of Hardy in the rear view mirror from outside the car, for example. As a man calmly determined to do the right thing by everyone, Hardy, in a softly accented Welsh voice, delivers a career best performance so far.