web analytics
September 19, 2024 – 9:45 pm | No Comment

Here it is sharmootahs! This week Free Press Podcast discusses being a jaded music fan, Jerry Eversole’s resignation, picking cocaine off the floor at Numbers, and we interview Brent Tipton of Dull Knife Records.

Read the full story »
Film
Music
Art
Featured
Food How to Make Cold Brewed Iced Coffee
Home » Film

Tamara Drewe

Submitted by admin on November 11, 2024 – 3:37 pmNo Comment
TwitterFacebookTumblrEmailShare

Tamara Drewe provides a showcase for Gemma Arterton but little else. As directed by Stephen Frears TD unwinds as a straight drama, only hinting at the farcical elements that lie beneath the story. The story’s based on a graphic novel of the same name.

Tamara Drewe had a huge aquiline nose as a lass but she returns to her hometown in the Dorset countryside with a nose job and a grown-up body to match her renewed sense of worth. Everybody in the rustic area is a writer, either a known writer, like Roger Allam as Nicholas Hardiment or writers in residence. Drewe herself works as a journalist. Everyone tries to outdo the other regarding their literary output but none can match Hardiment for his fame or his lechery.

Drewe finds herself the center of male attention from most everyone in town, but settles for the affections of rock star on sabbatical Ben Sergeant (Dominic Cooper). Sergeant’s also being stalked, in as friendly a manner as stalking can be interpreted, by two girls who create teen mayhem in the town. This pair manages most of the film’s comedy either through their Greek chorus comments on the other characters or their occasional malicious pranks.

Fans of Arterton should see Tamara Drewe. After all, the American studio films she appears in are C-grade efforts (Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans) while her work in English films (The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Rock n’ Roller, Three and Out) are quite illustrative of a soon to be sought after actress.

- Michael Bergeron

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.

You need to enable javascript in order to use Simple CAPTCHA.
Security Code: