This is a must-own for keepers of J.K. Rowling’s flame.
Would that the fantasy elements of the Potter series were as fantastic as the simple act of surviving young adulthood.
Like much of Michael Winterbottom’s work, the film is a highly uneven enterprise.
An intellectual, a feminist, and a socialist, writer-director Sally Potter places her films within the realm of the conceptual.
In the end, the film succeeds only in applauding a materialistic, self-absorbed audience’s pop-cultural cheekiness.
At a certain point, the film is not merely bathing in its puddle of grotesquerie, but drowning in it.
The features on this DVD feel as if they’ve been designed for the five and under crowd.
On DVD, Winterbottom’s film is a cult favorite in-the-making.
The film is a light and playful look at the Manchester music scene.
Kippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga? Is it St. Swithen’s Day already?