Film, TV and the Arts

Film, TV and the Arts
Showing posts with label Chris Morris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Morris. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Juror's Film Festival: Four Lions (d. Chris Morris, 2010)


Four Lions is undoubtedly one of the most awkward films you’ll ever see. After all, it is a comedy about suicide bombers, made by Chris Morris, a man who has never shied away from the uncomfortable and whose humour is frank, brutal and close-to-the-bone.

It is also one of the most important British films made in the last ten years. It attempts to deal, through the most comedic and ridiculous ways, with perhaps the most troubling element of the war on terror: the humanity of terrorists and suicide-bombers.