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- Funny Cow review: Maxine Peake equally loveable and loathable in excruciating, inspiring drama 1 / 9 Charlotte O'Sullivan 20 April 2018 Review at a glance Maxine Peake ’s latest film isn’t a comedy. It’s a drama about humour, set in a time and place when, to adopt the vernacular of late 20th-century Yorkshire, a big “cock” is a must-have item.
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Maxine Peake’s latest film isn’t a comedy. It’s a drama about humour, set in a time and place when, to adopt the vernacular of late 20th-century Yorkshire, a big “cock” is a must-have item.
- This Funny Cow Is No Laughing Matter
- Social Realism That’S Too Stereotyped to Feel Realistic
- Funny Cow: Conclusion
The truth is naturally more complicated than this, and the offending sequences in question run for less than five minutes of the film’s entire duration (race and sexuality are never mentioned outside of this). And yet, walking out of the film, I couldn’t help but wish that the film didn’t show a passivity when depicting what a working class comedy ...
The end product feels like a derivative attempt at recreating the blend of hard hitting social realism and comic levity you’d expect from a Ken Loach film, but struggling to balance the disparity in tone. On the social realism side, the flashback sequences to the protagonist’s childhood (where Funny Cow is renamed Funny Calf, and played by charming...
Funny Cow is one of the most harmful depictions of the British working class in popular culture since Sacha Baron Cohen’s Grimsby, in addition to being one of the most mindbogglingly racist and homophobic films in recent memory. This film’s supporters argue that this is accurate to what a working class comedy club was like in the eras depicted – bu...
THE BIG FILM REVIEW. Film review: Funny Cow. Maxine Peake, a distinguished actress of TV and theatre, dominates this drama about a stand-up comedian with her transformative power. Kevin Maher....
- Chief Film Critic, The Times
Apr 20, 2018 · An ambitious if flawed film, it’s a thought-provoking piece that – like its heroine – isn’t afraid to make its audience uncomfortable. Maxine Peake blazes in an unapologetically jagged story of a comic battling domestic violence, sexism and hecklers on the 1970s and 80s club circuit, writes Kate Stables.
Unapologetically northern, Funny Cow authentically presents experiences of working-class life from post-war Britain (when a bathtub in the yard is a pool) through to the '70s.
Funny Cow rests almost entirely on Maxine Peake's performance -- which proves more than capable of shouldering the weight of this affecting period drama. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Rated:...
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Funny Cow is a 2017 British comedy-drama film directed by Adrian Shergold and written by Tony Pitts. The film stars Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Tony Pitts, Stephen Graham, and Alun Armstrong. Original songs and score were composed by Richard Hawley, with additional songs by Ollie Trevers.
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