2008 · comedy · drama · coming-of-age
Somers Town
Directed by Shane Meadows1h 11m2008
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
Our read: Somers Town (2008) reads as a warm, measured, grounded comedy · drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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