Perhaps a little too light for my taste (as where the other films from Forsyth), it is a bit of a relic of a previous age. It's acted well enough by Paterson and the rest of the cast (Clare Grogan, from Altered Images, plays the femme fatale, so it's worth watching for that alone), but the ending does seem to be a bit false, given the violence and the reality of the so-called Ice Cream wars in Glasgow at the time.
Saturday 12 November 2016
Comfort and Joy
From my Amazon subscription, this is a light comedy og the 1980's by Bill Forsyth (who directed Local Hero and Gregory's Girl). Radio presenter, Alan "Dickie" Bird (Bill Paterson) is having difficulty adjusting when his girlfriend suddenly leaves him and gets involved in a conflict between two rival ice cream van families.
Perhaps a little too light for my taste (as where the other films from Forsyth), it is a bit of a relic of a previous age. It's acted well enough by Paterson and the rest of the cast (Clare Grogan, from Altered Images, plays the femme fatale, so it's worth watching for that alone), but the ending does seem to be a bit false, given the violence and the reality of the so-called Ice Cream wars in Glasgow at the time.
Perhaps a little too light for my taste (as where the other films from Forsyth), it is a bit of a relic of a previous age. It's acted well enough by Paterson and the rest of the cast (Clare Grogan, from Altered Images, plays the femme fatale, so it's worth watching for that alone), but the ending does seem to be a bit false, given the violence and the reality of the so-called Ice Cream wars in Glasgow at the time.
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