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Naked [DVD] [1993]

Naked [DVD] [1993]Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
Studio: Spirit Entertainment Ltd
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 reviews
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Format: PAL
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5060105720376
ASIN: B001AMMAIC

Release Date: August 18, 2008
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5 out of 5 stars A Mesmerising Study in Isolation and Human Relationships   September 1, 2008
Matt 85 (London, UK)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

Naked hit me like a sledgehammer when I first saw it. Unmatched in intensity, it examines several lives in different degrees of detail with one thing in common. They are all alone - even the girls who share the flat and the rich City boy with his girlfriends and conquests. Johnny links them together - his interactions with them, at times gentle, at times vicious and vile. We see, through excellence of acting and writing which is taut but often exuberant, how the morass of London isolates as often as it brings together. br / br /This is a true London film, made up mostly of non-Londonders. It shines a light onto people living in the early 90s, recession-hit, post-Thatcher period. It is a political film, polemical and angry. Johnny is seemingly full of wonder at the world, railing against the 'me, now' generation, and yet deeply cynical about the purpose of existence. br / br /Mike Leigh was accused of being misanthropic with Naked, focusing on the worst of human nature. But you can take from it what you want - in some people's lives there is little or no redemption, but there are moments. Moments of joy, kindness, laughter - even among the despair. You can take the great lines, the arguments, the speeches, the quotations. Take the fact that your life might have gone down the route of many of those people, but didn't. If it sounds like I treated this film like a religious experience, for many years I did. It is beautiful and powerful, rich and epic in its themes. I've never seen another film that spoke more to me about people.


5 out of 5 stars Mike Leigh's finest   November 18, 2008
R. M. HILL (Bournemouth Dorset)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

This Mike Leigh film is outstanding! I believe it was nominated for several awards at the Cannes film festival, and rightly so. David Thewlis plays Johnny, a complex anti-hero, which you love and loath in equal quantities. The dialogue is hilarious, witty, condescending and at times just plain mean. br / br /The standout scene for me is when Johnny is invited into a security unit by a guard out of sympathy. Johnny then proceeds to destroy this poor man's hopes and dreams with a scathing philosophical monologue about our future as a human race. The supporting cast are equally good, in particular Greg Cruttwell as the nihilistic, vain and deeply shallow landlord. The music score is eerily compelling and haunting , and fits perfectly with the characters and scenery. br / br /Unfortuntly Leigh hasn't made anything this dark or disturbing before or since. However he's still more consistent than most directors, and has become somewhat of a master at making thought provoking films.


5 out of 5 stars If there were six stars, this one'd have them all   March 26, 2009
Weird Sister (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

'Batman fans stay away', another reviewer wrote, and I cackled helplessly. There is very little to say about this film that hasn't been said beautifully by the other people who took the time to recommend 'Naked' to you. It is black as hell, cruel, miserable, funny, and, above all, Truthful. Mike Leigh saw the world As It Is and then decided to show it to us. However, and this is the most important point to remember: the rest of the excellent cast vanish...just...vanish...next to David Thewlis. If you are not yet familiar with Mr Thewlis' acting, then for God's sake start here, and hold onto your head, in case it explodes.


5 out of 5 stars Simply naked   August 2, 2009
Teresa Balesteros
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is one of my favourite movies ever and it's not easy to find. Unfortunately it has no portuguese subtitles so I'll have to watch it again with a dictionary nearby... cause the script is simply amazing. Anyway I recommend everyone to watch it!


5 out of 5 stars This film changed my life!!   August 18, 2008
Mr. S. M. Harris (with the wife and kids)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Having been a fan of Mike Leigh since accidently watching Abigails Party when I was about 13 I initially approached Naked with caution, after the bitter sweet romp that was 'life is sweet'the reviews for Naked at the time where varied and complex; and for only one reason..no one knew quite what to make of it. The opening scene has been debated on over the years whereupon the 'hero' Johnny is indulging in consensual, rough, backstreet sex with a women who he presumably knows. It sets up the film wonderfully as Johnny (played by the now famous David Thewlis) drifts around London and lambasts everybody he meets with his black-bible polemic. The 'end of the World is nigh' scene with Brian the security guard is worth the entry fee alone. This film made this young man (then) also think about the approaching 21st century with a sense of doom and guilt of what the industrial epoch had done to the planet, ourselves and our religious zeal. Never easy viewing, it is shot with minimum colour, but sprinkled with 'laughs' and underscored with sub-plots that tackle sexual relations, post yuppie social constructions, employment and homelessness it is the finest couple of hours that not only Mike Leigh has produced but modern cinema itself. Batman fans stay away.

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