An actor’s multiple personalities conflict when he wins a leading part in a play
This low-budget British effort throws comedy, drama, tired psychological thriller conceits and some broad satire to make a bag about as mixed as they come. Sandy Batchelor, who just about earns the film a little more forgiveness with a performance that’s both ripe as old cheese but also a parody of Ott acting, stars as Rupert Lindsay, an aspiring actor afflicted with dissociative identity disorder, a condition previously known as multiple personality disorder.
Wouldn’t you know it, that affliction turns out to be a boon when his extremely angry, shouty, Scots-accented identity comes to the fore during an audition for the role of an angry, shouty puritan in what’s supposed to be a lost Christopher Marlowe play. Unfortunately, sometimes another personality, a lascivious English-accented smoothie (think Terry-Thomas on ecstasy) assumes control, and...
This low-budget British effort throws comedy, drama, tired psychological thriller conceits and some broad satire to make a bag about as mixed as they come. Sandy Batchelor, who just about earns the film a little more forgiveness with a performance that’s both ripe as old cheese but also a parody of Ott acting, stars as Rupert Lindsay, an aspiring actor afflicted with dissociative identity disorder, a condition previously known as multiple personality disorder.
Wouldn’t you know it, that affliction turns out to be a boon when his extremely angry, shouty, Scots-accented identity comes to the fore during an audition for the role of an angry, shouty puritan in what’s supposed to be a lost Christopher Marlowe play. Unfortunately, sometimes another personality, a lascivious English-accented smoothie (think Terry-Thomas on ecstasy) assumes control, and...
- 4/26/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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