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Also on release this week
• THE FIRM Directed by Nick Love. Certificate: 18
THE influence for The Firm, which follows in a long line of well-made films telling the story of football violence in the 70s and 80s, is Alan Clarke’s TV drama of the same name, made in 1989.
We follow the story of wannabe football “Casual”, Dom, who becomes entranced by the hyper-violent, addicitve world of belonging to a football firm.
Dom is looking for something to do and joining local gang leader Bex’s hooligans seems to have given him a focal point.
However, as things turn darker, Dom realises that this lifestyle is not what he wants – yet it is easier, it seems, to get invovled than to walk away.
We meet firm leader Bex (Paul Anderson) on a dreary London housing estate – we see him line up with a rival gang, a sign of the organsied basis of football violence back then. On the same estate, Dom (Calum MacNab) is kicking around with
little to do, idly waiting for his calling. It comes in the shape of belonging to Bex’s feared football firm.
Littered with some funny one-liners and with a cool soundtrack to boot, and produced by Kentish Town-based indie company Vertigo Films, The Firm is not pretty but is certainly watchable.
• CHEVOLUTION. Directed by Trisha Ziff, Luis Lopez. Certificate 15
PHOTOGRAPHER Alberto “Korda” Diaz pointed his camera at Che Guevara in 1960 at a mass funeral.
He clicked the shutter and the image of the Cuban revolutionary was committed to print. The image captured by his camera at that crucial moment has become, according to this documentary, the most reproduced image in photographic history.
This film explores what is important about this photograph, and how it went from Diaz’s small Havana studio to gracing posters, T-shirts and just about everything else you can print a face on.
Using interviews with leading figures in Cuba and others as diverse as Irish republican Gerry Adams to Latino heartthrob actor Antonio
Banderas, the film unravels the tale of a picture that the photographer was never paid for taking. |
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