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Gypo
- Director: Jan Dunn
- Writer: Jan Dunn
- Producer: Barry Bassett; Jan Dunn
CGiii Comment
First British feature to be registered as Dogme - so, don't expect wailing violins and nifty special effects.
This is raw film-making and a very raw story - that should make most of us ashamed to be what were are.
The racism is real because racism exists (everywhere) - bleeding hearts: wake up and smell the fucking fair trade coffee.
Pauline McLynn is astounding - most of the cast are - this could have been a truly great film - just a pity is was bogged down by all the nonsense that the Dogme School preach - and, their successes have been few.
This could have been so, so good - watch it for McLynn - a long way from the excellent Father Ted.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
It charts the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence. Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change. Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is on the brink of a breakdown. His biggest fear is change. Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee, awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom - a concept taken for granted by all those around her. Told in three revelatory narratives, each from a particular character's point of view, reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed.
Cast & Characters
Pauline McLynn as Helen;
Chloe Sirene as Tasha;
Paul McGann as Paul;
Rula Lenska as Irina;
Tamzin Dunstone as Kelly;
Barry Latchford as Jimmy;
Freddie Connor as Tasha's Husband;
Tom Stuart as Darren;
Olegar Fedoro as Tasha's Father;
Sean Wilton as Art Tutor;
Angelica O'Reilly as Prostitute;
Rebecca Clow as Terminal Hostess;
Majid Iqbal as Illegal Worker;
Ashley McGuire as Penny;
Josef Altin as Michael