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VOICE OVER
A Film by Christopher Monger
Ian McNeice gives a finely nuanced performance as radio personality 'Fats' Bannerman who transposes aspects of his lonely, down-at-heel life to Miss Elizabeth , the romantic Regency heroine of his Jane Austen style radio series Thus Engaged. When grim reality violently intrudes into Fats' frail fantasies his ability to separate fact from fiction begins to break down.
A controversial early feature from a now-established Hollywood director, Chris Monger's Voice Over divided the critics -- whose judgments varied from 'sick and disturbing' (Time Out) to 'original and provoking' (The Guardian) -- on its release.
Special Features:
- Dual Format Edition: includes both the Blu-ray and the DVD of the film and the extras
- New High Definition restoration
- Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
- Repeater (Christopher Monger, 1979, 76 mins): Experimental thriller dealing with a woman's confession of murder.
- Illustrated booklet featuring new sleevenote essays.
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Voice Over is the most recent production that the BFI provides throught its inspiring Flipside series, as it was produced in the early 80s. The film is a psychological thriller providing a character stufy for Fats (Ian McNeice) the insecure and isolated radio anchor, who's driven by different women to take dramatic shifts in both his show & life. Obviously the film was poorly preserved, though the BFI has done a great job restoring it. The poor production value (a totally independent film) served the film on some levels especially when the director uses the radio to explain the success of Fats and his show. But in some other scenes, especially in Fats' last show scene, the film isn't ambitious on the visual levels as it is on the sound or the narrative level. Nevertheless, the film is a haunting thriller that is available now thanks to the BfI, & I recommend it for all the genre fans, and its a must keep for all Flipside collecction fans.
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By Now Zoltan
This movie took me back to the fledgling days of Channel 4 in the early 80s - confrontational drama, red triangle movies, grim realism (wasn't always the phoney 'reality' gubbins of today young 'uns!). As such there's plenty of gruelling authenticity in this tale of a talk DJ losing his marbles. Iain McNeice is excellent and there's some blacker than black humour, especially involving the mutation of his show from genteel parlour drama to proto 'Jane Austin is a vampire' type horror. Problem is would you want to watch it more than once? Possibly, but it's definitely not one you'll be digging out for a beery Friday night. Haven't watched the companion movie yet, truth be told I'm waiting for a particularly wet Wednesday afternoon for that pleasure. Picture quality is ropier than usual for the BFI, it's all about the rarity value here not visual pleasure.
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