Rita Sue and Bob Too (1987)
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Alan Clarke
Cast: Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan
Synopsis:
A suburban husband picks up two teenage schoolgirls and embarks on an intermittent sexual liaison with both of them.
Review:
Warts-and-all exposé of Northern English mores in which the most revealing point is no doubt that there is no real difference between the lower class girls and their families and the lower-middle class Bob. The involvement of an Asian boyfriend and his family at first seems to posit a more civilized alternative, but Clarke is not so glib and this is shown to bring its own constraints. Then again, it is their absence which has made the principals' behaviour possible. Made in Bradford, it depicts a society where loss of virginity is greeted with a shrug and in which emotion ties are replaced by primitive instincts of possession and territoriality.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Alan Clarke
Cast: Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan
Synopsis:
A suburban husband picks up two teenage schoolgirls and embarks on an intermittent sexual liaison with both of them.
Review:
Warts-and-all exposé of Northern English mores in which the most revealing point is no doubt that there is no real difference between the lower class girls and their families and the lower-middle class Bob. The involvement of an Asian boyfriend and his family at first seems to posit a more civilized alternative, but Clarke is not so glib and this is shown to bring its own constraints. Then again, it is their absence which has made the principals' behaviour possible. Made in Bradford, it depicts a society where loss of virginity is greeted with a shrug and in which emotion ties are replaced by primitive instincts of possession and territoriality.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Alan Clarke
Cast: Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan
Synopsis:
A suburban husband picks up two teenage schoolgirls and embarks on an intermittent sexual liaison with both of them.
Review:
Warts-and-all exposé of Northern English mores in which the most revealing point is no doubt that there is no real difference between the lower class girls and their families and the lower-middle class Bob. The involvement of an Asian boyfriend and his family at first seems to posit a more civilized alternative, but Clarke is not so glib and this is shown to bring its own constraints. Then again, it is their absence which has made the principals' behaviour possible. Made in Bradford, it depicts a society where loss of virginity is greeted with a shrug and in which emotion ties are replaced by primitive instincts of possession and territoriality.