We Are The Dead

Despite a glowing recommendation I was reluctant to see this, don't really like Clive Owen or PD James, and this was a Harry Potter director after all! Julianne Moore was probably the deciding factor, especially as she needed a chance to redeem herself after her lucklastre board treading of earlier in the week. She was very good, but it was the cinematography and production design that were the real stars. The gritty matter of fact violence was totally convincing. The filthy London streets actually reminded me of the London as it was when I first visited in the late seventies, litter everywhere, abandonded houses and wasteland, rain and grime and desperation. Maybe a key trigger for dystopian visions is a twisted nostalgia for a gloomy past.