Saxon
2007
London, the present. Soon after leaving prison, Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddie's other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash, Eddie phones Linda, a childhood sweetheart. She lives in Saxon - a ghost-town of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Harris, Sarah Matravers, Michelle Connolly, Henry Kelly |
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| Director | Greg Loftin |
| Genres | Drama |
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Saxon
London, the present. Soon after leaving prison, Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddie's other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash, Eddie phones Linda, a childhood sweetheart. She lives in Saxon - a ghost-town of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her husband Kevin won a million pounds on a TV quiz show. But Kevin has gone missing, feared dead. Eddie offers his services as an amateur sleuth, and so embarks on a comically gruesome journey through the surreal underworld of Saxon: the place where he grew up, the place where his mother works as a prostitute, the place where he murdered a bailiff.
| Starring | Sean Harris, Sarah Matravers, Michelle Connolly, Henry Kelly, Tony O'Leary, Luing Andrews, Shammi Aulakh, Neelam Bakshi, Colin Campbell, Michael Davidson, Drew Edwards |
|---|---|
| Director | Greg Loftin |
| Studio | LACE GROUP |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 12 Jan 2009 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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One of the most refreshing British crime films in years
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One Britpic well worth catching
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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very disapppointing
This was a very boring dull film. One of those films where you keep thinking something will happen but it doesn't. It is a cheap film with a small budget. It has a storyline that has been done a million times before and a million times better. i would possible recommend it as a cure for insomnia that's about it.
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Saxon
Saxon's press notes boast of its adherence to, and playfulness with, the rules and conventions of the great American westerns, but it is a very pleasant surprise to observe just how subtle and shrewd those genre nods are.
The plot is appropriately simple: Eddie (Sean Harris) returns home to the grim, ghostly Saxon housing estate after both a brief spell in prison, and a visit from a sadistic loan shark. With his one functioning eyeball on the line, Eddie tries to make a fast buck by interacting with a succession of the estate's most volatile misfits, in an attempt to track down a minor local celebrity who has inexplicably vanished.
It is an irrefutable oddity for sure, but the plot's fiendish momentum does exert a palpable grip, and for a film shot for almost nothing, it looks outstanding; composed entirely of wide-angled handheld shots, it comes off (visually, at least) like a collaboration between Luc Besson and Andrew Bujalski. But the ominous, whacked-out aura is all its own.
This is simply perfect if you're in the mood for some impeccably crafted weird. -
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