In November 2015 Leeds International Film Festival 2015 hosted the up to now only public screening of a beautiful movie called "Urban and the Shed Crew". The film isn't beautiful because of it's topic or the epic pictures in it. It's beautiful because it shows what compassion and dedication are able to move in a world, that's cold and turning away. It's the world of Urban Grimshaw, a little boy who fell out of the society in Maggie Thatcher's Great Britain. This film, picturing the autobiography of Bernard Hare with the same title is in parts uncomfortable to watch. It shows very realistically how Urban and his friends lived. But at the same time it carries so much sympathy for the characters, children and grown ups. It shows how bad life can get looking at Urban's mother Greta. And it shows how unexpectedly unconventional the way out of that life for Urban and a bit as well for Chop (Bernard Hare) happened.
This is my very personal review about the premiere of the film: http://wp.me/p55723-k8c
This is my very personal review about the premiere of the film: http://wp.me/p55723-k8c