| Reference Type |
Filmnews
journal
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| Title |
Letters - The F.J. Holden |
| Author(s) | Helen Hooper |
| Volume |
7 |
| Page Number |
2 |
| Comments |
A passionate, entertaining response to Meg Stewart's review of 'The F.J. Holden', written by a disgruntled (to say the least) member of the socio-economic class that the film portends to be representing. |
| Synopsis |
A scathing response to both 'The F.J. Holden' and Meg Stewart's review of the film published in Filmnews a month previous. Some of the highlights are;
"I read Meg Stewart's review of The F.J. Holden the night I'd been to see the film - it has taken me four hours to recover from the anger and rage of the experience. Her trite I'll scratch your middle class arse if you'll scratch mine comments prompt me to write this letter"(2)
and then...
"How someone can blithely state their condescending middle class position and without any political consciousness pat another bourgeois intellectual on the back for having the same narrow and arrogant view, I'll never know..."(2)
and then after that...
"This exploitative tourist's home movie has no development or depth at all> it doesn't happen in the dialogue, it doesn't happen in the image - it just doesn't happen"(2)
and, at last...
"IF this is a great and sensitive sociological study, just what do we learn about? Basically that the working class are like an updated, vaguely porny version of the long running family favourite, the Flintstones (gross but quaint)"(2) |
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