Oh, good. I really was put off by Kermode's review. I don't know if it's Kermode, who's usually pretty sound on that sort of thing on his Wittertainment podcast, or if the Guardian thought mentioning socialism too often would freak their advertisers and so subbed him to death, but it's full of the sort of phrases that make the blud thik etc: "the unlikely union between striking Welsh miners and out-and-proud gay Londoners " "George MacKay is Joe, a just-turned-20 mummy’s boy on the brink of coming out" "gobby Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) and his friends at London’s Gay’s the Word bookshop" "Onllwyn, a mining village in the Dulais valley, which seems to view “gays” and vowels with equal suspicion."* "Cue much La Cage aux Folles-style culture-clashing between the macho miners and metrosexual activists, mediated by theatrical luvvie Jonathan (Dominic West), who busts some outre disco moves with oddly unifying results."
And so on and so forth.
*I have a particular hatred of journalists who make that particular joke about Welsh vowels; it's an official language of a component country of the UK and how fucking difficult is it to remember "w" is pronounced "oo" anyway?
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Date: 2015-05-18 10:47 am (UTC)"the unlikely union between striking Welsh miners and out-and-proud gay Londoners "
"George MacKay is Joe, a just-turned-20 mummy’s boy on the brink of coming out"
"gobby Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) and his friends at London’s Gay’s the Word bookshop"
"Onllwyn, a mining village in the Dulais valley, which seems to view “gays” and vowels with equal suspicion."*
"Cue much La Cage aux Folles-style culture-clashing between the macho miners and metrosexual activists, mediated by theatrical luvvie Jonathan (Dominic West), who busts some outre disco moves with oddly unifying results."
And so on and so forth.
*I have a particular hatred of journalists who make that particular joke about Welsh vowels; it's an official language of a component country of the UK and how fucking difficult is it to remember "w" is pronounced "oo" anyway?