January 14th, 2009
Hearing about the success of this new film at the Golden Globes award ceremony (the one where Kate Winslet made a meal of her acceptance speech) we booked up to go see it at the Vue Cinema in York. The Vue chain of cinemas has recently started to show films to over 18′s only regardless of the film classification itself. We quite like this idea if it keeps the noise down in the auditorium so you can watch the film in peace. So it was last night. The cinema was nice and quiet and although it was not full, had a reasonable amount of punters for a Tuesday night. The film started and you quickly realise the story centres around how Jamal Malik knows the answers to the questions on an Indian Who Wants to be a Millionaire program that he finds himself appearing in.
It is a very clever intelligent film and with each answer, the film cuts back to the events in young Jamal’s life that went to so vividly imprint on his memory the information he recalled in answering the questions.
There was a little humour, a little violence, quite a depressing depiction of life in the slums of India and a well written script brought to life in a very well directed cinematic picture. Directed by Danny Boyle and Co Directed by Lovelean Tandan, I enjoyed it very much. I think Paul liked it to, but for those who know him, it is often difficult to get anything other than ‘It was OK’ when asking about films he has just seen.
Pryordurkin rating 4 stars.
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