UK – Comedy – Year: 2015 – Running time: 85 mins
Language: English
Two sisters, most unlikely career-criminal types, snip through a fence and attempt to steal a JCB. This ill-advised caper leads to even more bizarre happenings as they take a car belonging to two published beat poets, adopt their identities and make their way to a poetry festival in the Welsh Black Mountains. A far cry from Black Mountain College, North Carolina and the birth of the American post-war avant-garde era (William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, et al), here a Tesco receipt even provides humorous verse.
An unpolished gem.
Dave Calhoun (Time Out)
Director: Jamie Adams
Benny & Jolene (2014), Wonderful Christmas Time (2014)
Cast:
Alice Lowe .. Lisa
Dolly Wells .. Claire
Tom Cullen .. Richard
(for full cast, and more information, see “Black Mountain Poets” in IMDB)
Selected UK reviews:
The Telegraph (Tim Robey)
Peter Bradshaw (Guardian)