With its realist focus on kinship, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead probably comes closest to Wheatley’s feature debut Down Terrace (2009) or perhaps to its follow-up Kill List (2011) – the latter also starring Maskell as a deeply flawed patriarch. Colin looks on with derision as everyone makes her the centre of attention - again. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead’s mundane storyline coupled with a climax that fails to compel, however, let Wheatley’s most recent release fall to a non-essential 2020 viewing. Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Sightseers was a blacker-than-black comedy about a loving couple who kill people on their caravan tour of Britain. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is perhaps an experimental indulgence by a filmmaker who has reached a point where success has given him the scope to quickly make an ensemble character study on the fly, designed to reverse-engineer an inverse look at the stock hero’s journey. What results is a disjointed mess with little trajectory or precision, and very little added width in the characters. Great writeup! High-Rise was a startling departure, a dystopian nightmare based on a story by J.G. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David. If we have to rely simply on the quality of the insults, all is lost. Indeed, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead has to hold our attention with no tricks, gimmicks or flim -flam; it's all about storytelling, and Wheatley is terrific at that. Down Terrace, his debut in 2009, was about the hunt for a grass within an East End crime family: the members tried to work out domestic tensions as they offed each other. Tolstoy be damned: every unhappy family may be unhappy in its own way, but that doesn't make them interesting. Also Neil is a legend of an actor. I love Field in England, so happy people are watching it, Free Fire and High Rise didn't really work for me, let's hope this one lands. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Close. HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD ★★½. That's partly because there are too many to develop. Tolstoy be damned: every unhappy family may be unhappy in its own way, but that doesn't make them interesting. Maskell has appeared in two of Wheatley's earlier films. Uncle Bertie (Charles Dance) wears make-up and twin-set, but stops short of the full wig. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Press J to jump to the feed. Colin Burstead hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. I love you for writing that last paragraph. The name rhymes with bastards. See photos of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Leonardo DiCaprio before they hit the big-time, and revisit their earliest onscreen roles. Posted by. There is an Indian couple, friends of the family (Vincent Ibrahim and Sudha Buchar), whose presence adds nothing to the drama - except that their no-hoper son Sham (Asim Chaudhry) arrives uninvited, thinking of suicide. I liked Free Fire a lot. From beginning to end, it made me laugh and the high-energy family tension was brilliant to watch. But there's no doubt the guy's talent. No-one bats an eyelid, nor do they notice that he is not looking well. Ben Wheatley has made a brilliant career out of bending genres, while taking the piss out of the British family. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead a party no one wants to be invited to. There are exceptions: Maskell gives a withering performance as Colin, who's an explosion waiting to happen. The movie is half over before we find out why her brother David (Sam Riley) is a pariah. 31 December 2018 | michael-kerrigan-526-124974, I'm a bit marmite on Ben Wheatley at the minute. I don't like everything Wheatley makes but he's such an original, risk-taking filmmaker that I'll give anything he makes a watch. From beginning to end, it made me laugh and the high-energy family tension was brilliant to watch. Anyone know the name of artist for the poster? Dance, as Uncle Bertie, gives his character some soul, partly because he's the only one who exhibits any love for the rest of them. 2/5 stars Film Annie Junor 14 April 2020 2020 , 2020 films , Ben Wheatley Comment I recommended this one to my brother, but I guess I didn't adequately describe how fucked up it is, so he watched it with his girlfriend (who abhors violent movies in general), and she's still mad at us for subjecting her to that, haha. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is one of his smallest scale projects but I loved it. The country manor featured in the film is Pennsylvania Castle on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, which was built in 1797-1800 for John Penn, Governor of Portland and grandson of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. It's probably my favourite movie, Reece Shearsmith was phenomenal, and that fucking tent scene makes me so sad and scared every time I see it - I can't remember having a similar reaction to any other scene from any other movie. He's in the long British television tradition of humour based on close observation of character, with a strong instinct for class. - amazing line and delivery by Reece Shearsmith. So Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is sort of familiar film in the context of British cinema but is a stand-out in the back catalogue of its creator. Take my money, Wheatley has yet to disappoint me. Poster for Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. Archived. For more information and session times click here. | A time for reflection, reunions and resolutions. The Burstead women run in all directions, cursing and weeping in the servants' quarters. Poster for Ben Wheatley’s Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. Wheatley appears to have hired a big house, filled it with friends and booze, giving each person a thin description of their character, then waited for the magic to happen. Wheatley is more Mike Leigh than Ken Loach, but he hasn't got Leigh's forgiving heart or Loach's political instincts. Pin. His dad, Gordon (Bill Paterson), bites him for a loan even before everyone has arrived, then starts drinking when Colin says no. He puts violence where the heart is, quite literally. His last film Free Fire I hated - I know it was a parody on shoot em ups but didn't work for me. Take the Bursteads, a working-class English family. Down Terrace and Kill List are two movies I absolutely adore. I shall chew up all the selfish scheming and ill intentions that men like you force upon men like me, and bury it in the stomach of this place!" For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. Using Reddit. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is, ostensibly, a film about a fractured family having a get-together ... Reddit. That gives a hint of David's priors. MA, 94 minutes. That instinct makes his comedy sharp, but it has to be tempered. With Neil Maskell, Sura Dohnke, Marvin Maskell, Nicole Nettleingham. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (MA15+) is screening as part of this year’s MINI British Film Festival (Brisbane October 30th – November 24th 2019). The writing credit confirmed my suspicions: Ben Wheatley wrote most of the script, but other cast members improvised dialogue during shooting. 21 comments. Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. It's like, if you enjoyed the Mexican standoff from Reservoir Dogs and wished that it was 90 minutes long and had more 70's suits with giant lapels and pitch black humor, you'll dig Free Fire. It's so ridiculously over the top that I was just laughing in disbelief through half of the movie. u/Bennett1984. Drama. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Directed by Ben Wheatley. 102. Flip. Kill List is terrific if you don't mind some insanely gruesome scenes of violence and mayhem. It’s also a time for arguments, bust ups and chaos. Ballard: the residents of a tower block, cut off from all services, start to kill each other. Colin Burstead (Neil Maskell) hates some more than others, but he does his duty and organises a New Year's Eve reunion in a posh country house. 6 out of ten, View production, box office, & company info. Ah, New Year’s Eve. It's quite slow and in B&W, and has a real 70's art house feel to it, but the setting (the English Civil War in the 1600's), the hallucinatory cinematography, the iconic psychedelic trip scene, and that goddamn insane scene with the rope and the tent (gives me goosebumps just thinking about it) all make it one of the most unique movies I've ever seen. " Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David. I shall consume all the ill fortune which you are set to unleash. 95 min Bile by itself is not that funny. Filed Under: Entertainment, Films Tagged With: ben wheatley, charles dance, comedy, drama, happy new year colin burstead, neil maskell. It seems to be a British take on the brilliant Danish dogma film Festen - but not in the same league. Happy New Year, Colin Burstead., 2018.
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