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The Low Down

Aidan Gillen plays an aimless twenty-something who refuses to grow up, even after he starts dating a responsible estate agent, in Jamie Thraves’ slacker romance.

Comedy 2001 96 mins

Director: Jamie Thraves

Rent for £3.50

Overview

In one of his earliest lead roles, Aidan Gillen plays an aimless twenty-something who refuses to grow up, even after he starts dating a responsible estate agent, in Jamie Thraves’ slacker romance.

Thraves made his name in music videos and short films before mounting his debut feature, an accomplished and refreshing romantic comedy with a breezy and distinctive atmosphere, which absorbs European art-house and US indie influences to present a kind of British forerunner to mumblecore. With its glorification of the mundane detail of a pre-gentrification Hackney, The Low Down has also become an unwitting chronicle of one of London’s most rapidly evolving regions of recent years.

Director

Jamie Thraves

Featuring

Aidan Gillen , Kate Ashfield and Dean Lennox Kelly

Genres

Comedy

Certificate

Contains coarse language, drugs and sexual references

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Accessibility

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