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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 03:30 pm:   

I would be very interested to know if anybody had heard of this film, let alone seen it.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.131.51.242
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 08:26 am:   

Hi Frank - I've seen Memoirs of a Survivor but not this one
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 10:34 am:   

Sounds interesting, this one...
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 10:59 am:   

Thanks guys. One of the people I could find online who'd seen it described it in their review as almost impossible to categorize. I think it's this most of all which has drawn me to it.

John - Memoirs of a Survivor?
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.131.51.242
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 04:28 pm:   

If you haven't seen it Frank add it to your list - I think you'd like it. Julie Christie lives in a flat a bleak future and finds a way through the wall of her flat (??) into a sort of parallel Victorian universe. Here's imdb:

'D' is a chronicler of a society in chaos, who looks down on the marauding gangs, and rubbish-strewn streets from the fortress prison of her flat. Buffeted by inner dreams and longings, D finds an alternative world by stepping through the wall of her flat, like Alice through the Looking Glass. Here it is Victorian England, the bosom of an unsettled family, harbingers, perhaps, of the decay to come. She flits between the two sides of her double life, always observing, never participating, and watches as her protégé, Emily, becomes involved with vagrants' leader Gerald and their efforts to control the violent scavengers fail.

I saw it when I was 15 and it's one of those haunting pictures that develops very slowly and you never really know what's real and what isn't.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 85.222.86.21
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 07:00 pm:   

Oooh, I'll give that a go. Thanks, John.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 07:47 pm:   

From the first line of your synopsis, John, I thought you were going to say that it was made last week...

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