Highly absorbing film about respectable family man Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) who, after losing his job as a consultant, invents a prestigious new career and betrays close friends with fictitious investment deals. Juggling fact with fiction creates ever-spiralling tensions until Vincent's double life closes in around him. A deceptively profound drama.
Rating: 5 / 10
Retail dvd & vhs (artificial eye, widescreen)
Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!
Bruce Springsteen: "I get roughed up crowdsurfing… people try to pull chunks out of me"
Boards Of Canada, "Tomorrow's Harvest": first listen
First Look - David Bowie: Five Years
R.E.M - Green 25th Anniversary Edition
The Clash announce major new box set
The National: "Trouble Will Find Me is like The Band and Air in the same room"
I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...
