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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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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...
- 2 min
- 165.9K
- eOne UK
- 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...
In the 1967 Nell Dunn book/Ken Loach film Poor Cow, the heroine is glad to be shot of her violent husband and embraces an adoring new boyfriend. As Funny Cow admits, what makes her feel loved...
Funny Cow. NEW. A female comic bounces around before rising to the top in the 1970s and 1980s. Peacock Prime Video. Watch Funny Cow with a subscription on Prime Video.
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- Maxine Peake
- Adrian Shergold
- Comedy, Drama
Apr 22, 2018 · Funny Cow is a class act; fiercely performed, smartly written, sensitively directed, wonderfully scored. But it’s the bitter tang of authenticity that stays with you.
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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. Full Review ...
