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Moviola > Films > Brighton Rock Brighton Rock (15) 111 mins Where can I see this film?
Rowan Joffe's debut feature embraces the classic elements of film noir and the British gangster film to tell the story of Pinkie (Sam Riley), a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose (Andrea Riseborough, Made in Dagenham), stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Helen Mirren and John Hurt co-star as friends who set out to save Rose from Pinkie's devious designs. Brighton Rock is based on the iconic 1939 Graham Greene novel of innocence and evil but the action has been updated to 1964 Britain, the year the Mods and the Rockers were rioting across the South coast. The 60s were also the era of the great British gangster, the type of working class hero the frightened and ambitious Pinkie longs to be. "Joffe unashamedly plays up the story’s elements of noirish melodrama, abetted by Martin Phipps’s tumultuous score. The sea is shot to look turbulent and oil-dark, and the camera swoops and plummets like a drunken seagull; one overhead clifftop shot of Rose and Pinkie is pure Titanic-style kitsch. The updating to 1964, year of the Mods and Rockers clashes, doesn’t harm the narrative, and allows for a moment of incongruous humour – Pinkie, having stolen a scooter as a getaway vehicle, finds himself heading a Mod procession along the seafront – as well as enhancing the overall theme of futile violence. Sam Riley, less scarily dead-eyed than Attenborough but more broodingly malicious, makes an effective Pinkie, while Andrea Riseborough brings a welcome hint of steel to the potentially over-passive role of Rose. They’re backed by a practised cast of quality British acting: Helen Mirren as Ida, Phil Davis, John Hurt and, in a smoothly malevolent cameo, Andy Serkis as gang boss Colleoni." Sight and Sound "Graham Greene's great 1939 novel about an ambitious teen psychopath's attempt to ascend the gangland ladder and his dark plans for the pliable girl who crosses his path comes to startling life in Rowan Joffe's elegant, suspenseful thriller. Control's Sam Riley steps into a role made unforgettable by a young Richard Attenborough in the 1947 original and makes it his own, slipping into the character like a second skin. Joffe juggles a lot of elements in his story, including the Catholicism which so marked Greene's work and the religion that promises Pinkie and even Rose the hellfire of eternal damnation for their sins. This said, Joffe never drops any balls or loses sight of the fact that this is essentially a thrilling film noir blended with a twisted romance. Riley is unforgettable as the young psycho whose ambition outstrips his reach, but his is only one among many excellent performances delivered by Joffe's ace cast." Box Office Magazine For more information, and to see a trailer and stills, visit the official website at www.brightonrockmovie.com
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