The Last Embrace
1997
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The central character in "Naked" is Johnny (David Thewlis), who as the movie opens has rough sex with a weeping girl in an alley in some barren northern city, and then steals a car and drives down to London. From the way he talks and certain things he refers to, we gradually conclude that he has had an education - is an "intellectual," in that ...
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
The pitch for the Netflix original movie “Naked” was about as simple as they come: “Like “Groundhog Day” … but naked.” Marlon Wayans , in something of a career surge with this premiere and his new NBC sitcom “Marlon,” reunites with “A Haunted House” and " Fifty Shades of Black " director Michael Tiddes for this story of a ...
London Critics Circle Film Awards. • 1 Win & 1 Nomination. Johnny (David Thewlis) flees Manchester for London. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own.
An unemployed - but intelligent - social misfit goes on the run to London following a back alley rape, but finds The Capital just as desperate and alienating as his native Manchester. This is one of the hardest films I have ever had to review.
Mike Leigh’s Cannes-winning film is a masterful, controversial, and totally unforgettable exploration of society in free-fall at the tail end of Thatcher’s Britain. Naked has been newly remastered by the BFI National Archive and is available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
Heeeere’s Johnny, the desperate, destructive prophet-of-the-apocalypse protagonist of Mike Leigh’s brilliantly corrosive Naked (1993), a sexually explicit update to a long line of British films, plays, and novels about angry young men.
