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  1. Mark Kermode reviews Funny Cow. A female comedian in the 1970s struggles to break through in the male-dominated industry. Please tell us what you think of the film -- or Mark’s review of the...

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  2. Feb 27, 2018 · Set against the backdrop of working men’s clubs in the North of England, FUNNY COW is both a love-letter to a bygone era and the defiant story of a woman who refuses to give up her dreams. Fast...

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  3. Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of ‘Funny Cow’, a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom.Se...

  4. Apr 20, 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 ...

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  5. 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.

  6. Apr 19, 2018 · T here are movies — rare as they are — about women who do not compromise and make no apologies. And then theres Funny Cow, as blistering and caustic a film about a no-bullshit woman clawing her way through a man’s world as I’ve ever seen.

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  8. Apr 13, 2018 · Funny Cow is released on 13 April. Comedy concert movies enjoyed a brief heyday in the 1970s and 1980s (Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Bette Midlerâ?Ts Divine Madness) but stand-up itself has never been successfully dramatised in cinema.

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