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Comedian (The)
- Director: Tom Shkolnik
- Writer: Tom Shkolnik
- Producer: Farah Abushwesha; Bertrand Faivre
CGiii Comment
The Dogme tradition of filmmaking is (unfortunately)...still alive and still as alienating.
That said, what Dogme did achieve was...people made cheap, arthouse films and received the Dogme moniker as some kind of legitimacy for their otherwise redundant film...but, people did make films!!!
At times, The Comedian bears all of these dogged hallmarks...thankfully, Shkolnik manages to salvage enough good material from the improvised trash heap to present an admirable debut - owed partly to a fine central performance - at only 75 minutes, good material was in short supply and, it still could have benefited from a more discernible trim.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Ed (Edward Hogg) is at a crossroads in his life. In his early thirties, his unrewarding job in a call centre is getting more and more frustrating, while his career as a stand-up is not taking off in the way he hoped it would; in fact, he's starting to acknowledge he might not be a very good comedian. His love life begins to look promising when he meets artist Nathan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), a gorgeous younger man who quickly develops a deep affection for Ed. Yet Ed's feelings are conflicted when he recognises he is drawn to his female flatmate Elisa (Elisa Lasowski).
Cast & Characters
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett;
Steven Robertson;
Elisa Lasowski;
Edward Hogg as Ed;
Gerard Murphy;
Brett Goldstein;
Kate Rutter;
Edyta Budnik;
Nyasha Hatendi;
Caolan Byrne