Feel like a British Film......

I found out only recently that this is not a british movie. It has a british look and feel... which is a good thing in my book.




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(Mother tongue... that's funny)!

Yes, now that you mention it, it is true: the constant black humour, the over-the-top posh stupid mother, the English-like mansion, Harold's perfect manners and his so polished ways of speaking for a teenager, the Army old boy boasting about his gun-ho WWII exploits, the beautiful little Jaguar...

It has the feel of two British films made the previous year IMO. 'Loot' and 'Entertaining Mr Sloane.'

I thought exactly the same thing. The drab setting and grey weather definitely give it a British feel as does the black/dark/offbeat humour and morbid undertones, Harold's well-spoken mother, Harold's Jaguar, the country-style mansion.

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A lot of things from that time -- the bleak, bittersweet melancholy tone circa 1970 -- wound up "feeling British" even when they weren't.

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Just watched it for the first time after having been in my Netflix queue for a long while. When I added it I had assumed it was British. I'm not sure why.

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The locations had me convinced it took place in England.

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The only thing British about the film was the mother's accent. It was very obviously set in Northern California.