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 Dirty
Tricks
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Dirty Tricks
Starring: Martin
Clunes, Lindsay Duncan, James Nlam, and so forth
Directed by
Paul Seed
Based on novel by Michael Dibdin
Here’s
a British gem you could never see on public broadcast –
or uncut on BBC America for that matter. It’s a bit too
riddled with what the polite call “adult content.”
Dirty Tricks is glimmeringly clever and well written, acted superb,
and simply, wonderfully, blunt.
You’ve
not seen Martin (Doc Martin) Clunes in, um, this position (s)
before. That’s probably why he’s done it. Fear not.
Dirty Tricks is not a porn. It just got many situations that one
does not usually see so well – shall we say – lit
– in a smart decidedly British comedy.
Edward
(Clunes) is what people call a perpetual student. Definition here,
not well paid and frequently unemployed know-it-all sort. He’s
been invited to his boss’s friend’s house (Neil Dudgeon)
for a dinner party.
Faster
than the party can uncork the evening’s star cab, the house’s
wife (Julie Graham) begins to play footsy with Edward under the
table.
Sure,
you can see where this is going insofar as the adultery. But probably
not the subsequent unexpected – or planned - deaths, and
twists that turn like a long-growing vine up a craggy chimney-scape.
All
the time, the ever innocent-pleading Edward breaks the fourth
wall and implores us to see it his way…his eyebrow firmly
raised in a snide remark at all times. He’s not a particularly
nice guy. However, that does not necessarily mean he’s a
murderer either.
Brilliant.
This is black and British comedy at its absolute finest. Finesse
and funny mingle to create one helluva unique modern drama about
affairs, murder and boatmanship errors…
Snack
recommendation:
Good bottle of wine, and pear and rosemary jellied baked brie.
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