Dirty Filthy Love on DVD (2004)

pink-girl from North West England [Highly rated reviewer] , 06/12/2006

Please watch this its real life its fantastic and a film you will remember for a long time. The characters are excellent and you end up feeling like you've known them for ever that is what acting is all about. A truly thought provoking, funny, sad and inspirational movie

  46 out of 52 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Mid Wales in the UK. , 08/09/2005

This film made me weep tears of joy and laughter, anger and frustration, sympathy and empathy and deep, deep understanding.

The acting talents of both Michael Sheen and Shirley Henderson are displayed to awe-inspiring effect, in this deeply moving, sensitive, witty, refreshing and above all, uplifting drama.

A film I will watch again and again.

  24 out of 27 people found this review helpful

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add from EXETER [Highly rated reviewer] , 28/02/2007

For the films lazy convenience we begin with Michael Sheen’s marriage and career in tatters due to the worsening symptoms of his tourettes and OCD so this flawed drama can revel in his eccentricities. A more ambitious film would of giving us a better understanding of his relationship with his wife and its deterioration with a more subtle progression of his disease. As it is characters such as his wife and flat mates come off cold and impossibly ignorant to what he’s going though and it all feels a little unbelievable that a middle aged man can lose everything before fully understanding his disease. This could have been excellent considering the performances involved, instead it constantly takes the easy option and then appropriately ends in an inconclusive, half arsed manor.

  15 out of 19 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Bradford, West Yorkshire , 01/02/2007

Had'nt heard much about this film, added it to fill up my rental list really. What a fantastic piece of work, acting, script and direction are first class.Takes you on the preverbial rollercoaster of emotions!! Superb.

  12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

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A customer from England , 28/03/2007

For those of us who live with people with OCD this takes it to extreme and shows you what others live with. I highly recomend this to anyone who lives with a patner with OCD

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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Graham from UK [Highly rated reviewer] , 28/05/2007

Having seen a documentary on a bunch of morons who use tourette’s as an excuse to randomly insult people for us it was interesting to see a more genuine researched case of OCD and tourette’s. After watching this movie you can begin to understand how extreme pressure can lead a person to say what is on their mind due to that missing part of their mind’s self control, quite different to the documentary where these idiots simply f’d and blinded continuously whilst under no pressure at all. Dirty Filthy Love follows Mark Furness a sufferer of tourettes and OCD during the break up of his marriage, the plot is believable and genuinely fascinating in places whilst the acting remains of good quality throughout leaving all the foundations for an excellent film. Whilst we would both recommend this film to most people it is important to note that it is filmed in more of a made for TV style than a classic power drama, something that might not suit all potential viewers, it is also quite slow in places, perhaps too slow. Overall we would recommend to all viewers whose tastes include meaningful dramas we think you will enjoy this good quality and interesting film, some viewers less inclined to dramas will arguably find this slow and perhaps even boring. It’s not perfect but worth a watch. A strong 3 stars, 6/10.

  6 out of 8 people found this review helpful

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