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By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Post (543) on 11 Aug 2010

It's decidedly low budget, but sufficiently inventive enough to have won the Michael Powell prize for being the best of British at the Edinburgh…

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By Mark H (1,764) on 05 Aug 2010

Brilliant film by Derbyshire Director. Go see it if it comes to an independent cinema near you. Quirky, funny and strangely heart-warming…

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By Will D (958) on 31 Jul 2010

A British film through and through…

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By Nicholas W (449) on 16 Jul 2010

Very inventive indie movie with some great performances…

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By Ange H (15) on 11 Jul 2010

I really enjoyed this film. I did think the Jason Isaacs part may be the main event, but it really wasn't…

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By Adam B (2,189) on 10 Jul 2010

It is a delight to see a film which has a sufficiently high opinion of its audience to set its own pace, scatter its humour so deftly and spend…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Radio Times (2,421) on 07 Jul 2010

Since the mannered storytelling never really draws us in, we're too often left to contemplate the film's oddity instead of its emotional conflicts…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 07 Jul 2010

This surreal and quirky British comedy-drama benefits from strongly resonant performances that help us go along with the absurdist plot…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 05 Jul 2010

With its pitch-perfect performances, surreal streak of humour, strong sense of place and poignant notes of melancholy, it might just be the…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 04 Jul 2010

A fairly solid debut, a decent calling card for Whitfield - it will be interesting to see what he does next - and a welcome signal that the…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Downtown Express (2) on 01 Jul 2010

Writer/director Nick Whitfield is clearly a talent to watch…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 01 Jul 2010

This primitive effort needed much more work on the screenplay, a director with some grasp of pace, and a budget that could have done justice…

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By David Gritten (155) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 01 Jul 2010

One hesitates to over-praise such a delicate, small-scale work, but Whitfield seems like a major talent…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 30 Jun 2010

Balancing oddity and fantasy with real emotions and pain is a difficult trick to pull off. Whitfield has managed it nicely…

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By Henry Barnes (139) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 30 Jun 2010

Nick Whitfield's directorial debut is a screwy, smart look at the boundaries we draw between our private and public lives, delivered through…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 29 Jun 2010

Though there's a little narrative drift in the middle, as a portrait of lives wrecked and remedied by memory's narcotic pull it's both strange…

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By Tim J (284) on 24 Jun 2010

This was touted as Terry Gilliam meets Charlie Kaufman in the Edinburgh Film Festival guide and that's why I decided to go see it…

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By Chris Z (200) on 27 May 2010

Wacky, pretty funny, surreal and imaginative. Bumbling metaphysical exorcists I guess…

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By Peter T (323) on 19 Apr 2010

This is the kind of film festivals are made for! Two oddball psychics are hired by people to unearth long buried and often painful secrets…

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