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you could call both of them speculative essay films but it doesn't make london a rip off.Finisterre is a huge (and greatly inferior) rip-off but isn't London an even bigger rip-off of Sans Soleil?
this and the subtle SF element - "...robinson's been experimenting with time travel again."luka said:its a very funny film. uneasy bickering sexual relationship, thats funny.
i've watched it with people who've been put off by its 'preciousness' but that's a sleight of hand by keillor. the genius of scofield's narration is that his tone might evoke any pompous, trad BBC narrator but the words, and the angered lapses of composure, betray that. from the beginning it's full of contempt for english tradition/myth/smallness. that immediately undoes any shreds of sentimentalism in those long lingering shots. they're part of an anti-sentimental exercise in penetrating 'the problem of london.'