Poor Charles McDougall. He's the director of Heart, yet this will forever be referred to as a "Jimmy McGovern film", despite the fact that the creator of Cracker and The Lakes only wrote it. Yet from the opening shot of Maria (Reeves) clutching a bloody bag, through to the satisfying yet uncomfortable ending, it looks and feels like a McGovern film, populated by McGovern people. After all, Christopher Eccleston appeared in Cracker and Hillsborough, while McDougall directed both. Add a Northern location (Liverpool) and you're on familiar, queasy and uneasy McGovern territory. Similarly, there's lots of swearing, a fair old dollop of sex and it's all fairly bleak stuff, counterpointed by bursts of natural wit. Yet Heart makes Cracker look as tame as the Teletubbies by comparison.
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mahmoud
Jan 13th 2009, 18:08
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