Get Back to your Tenements! The Modern Relevance of Nuts In May
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Writing for The Quietus, Adelle Stripe pitches up to revisits Mike Leigh's cult classic, chewing 72 times to realise that she might have more in common with Keith and Candice-Marie Pratt than she previously cared to admit.
"I must have seen Nuts In May over 20 times since first watching it as a film student back in my late teens. Back then, I was an outsider trying to understand where I fitted in. Mike Leigh’s films helped me realise that I didn’t belong anywhere, and that was no bad thing. That the BFI have chosen to reissue his 1976 Play For Today this month proves there is an enduring quality to the work, and watching it yet again at the age of 50 (I was born the year it was broadcast), new aspects to the film emerge. Perhaps the most shocking is that I even have a newly-found smidgen of sympathy for his monstrous creation, Keith Pratt. Reading the reaction to archive clips that have appeared online recently, it appears I am not alone in doing so..."
