Review of Made in Britain (1983) by Greg S — 13 Dec 2010

Alan Clarke is a director that any self respecting film buff should seek out works by and this is one of his masterpeices of which their were several.

This film was originally one of four films written by David Leyland about the subject of education ,i havent seen the others but this is an outstanding piece of work by a master cratfsman.

Tim Roth plays Trevor a Skinhead who enjoys nothing better than stealing cars ,Sniffing glue ,Smashing windows and kicking against the pricks.

While it would have been easy to potry Trevor as Stupid what the film makers do here is make Trevor a higly intelligent individual who doesnt want to conform to the normal set of ideals.

Clarke gets a brilliant performance from the Young Tim Roth, he really holds your attention in every scene he is in .Leylands writing sparks of the screen and the ending leaves you thinking about what you have seen .

Very much a product of the Thatcher era the film still packs a stomach thumping wallop some 30 years after the fact .

No can someone pick up Leylands sequel which focuses on Trevor today that would be great.