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The Short and Curlies. Directed by Mike Leigh • 1987 • United Kingdom. David Thewlis and Alison Steadman star in this 1987 short comedy by Mike Leigh about a romance between a young woman who frequently changes her hairstyle and a young man who communicates only through one-liners. Subscribe. 17:16. The Short and Curlies.
David Thewlis is impossibly young-looking in this early short film from Mike Leigh, which traffics so well in the weird equilibrium between its two leads--Sylvestra Le Touzel as a sort of stoicly glum drugstore cashier and Thewlis as her almost terminally awkward young-would be beau--that when it becomes surprisingly (almost hauntingly) poignant late in its short running time (most scenes are ...
HAVE (GOT) SOMEONE BY THE SHORT AND CURLIES definition: 1. to have someone in your power 2. to have someone in your power. Learn more.
17. Apr. 2020 · Mike Leigh’s short film, The Short and Curlies (1987), is screened alongside Hal Ashby’s Shampoo (1975). These two films about hairstylists and their customers are set in radically different contexts — Leigh’s is in working-class Britain and Ashby’s is in flashy Beverly Hills. However, both feature plenty of voluminous hair, and ...
The great prickly humanist of British cinema, Mike Leigh has forged a body of work unique in its concern for the struggles of ordinary people and the social fabric of working-class London. Famously born from a process of extensive improvisation with his powerhouse actors, Leigh’s films inhabit a register of tragicomic despair that, thanks to ...
The Short & Curlies. Directed by: Mike Leigh. Starring: Alison Steadman, Sylvestra Le Touzel, David Thewlis. Genres: Comedy, Drama. Rated the #156 best film of 1987, and #9961 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser.
