#13 Cheeky
Harry Sankey = The Tragicomic Character
Pros: David's first (and only) film as he writes and directs shows that he has a lot of talent, a real-life story in which we know more about David's personality, embodying Harry, a man who from living a rose-colored life becomes in the blink of an eye a disgrace when his wife dies and this one knowing that his desire was that he appears in a TV contest called precisely Cheeky will make this live situation of the most tragicomic. It is obvious that David made such a film because he has a great appreciation for comedies and black acid humor movies, which I use to emphasize this film. It has a cozy and loving cast: Lesly Sharp (yes, nice reference to Naked) and Eddie Marsan. Perhaps it would be a film that I would advise to see only if you are a fan of him, but Cheeky deserves more attention, a hidden jewel without a doubt.
Cons: Just one, but I think it's a big one, the problem with the whole film is that at any moment it tends to be more comedy or more drama and it's not completely defined at all, and in the end it's neither one nor the other, David tries to make a mixture of the two and finally the film is not as substantial as it could be, in my opinion, I feel that he wanted to make a very careful story and not touch on something insolent because the clear examples of this are several moments of the film such as the plot of the TV show and the creation of the character Trudie Styler, both are great ideas that he embodied in the film but do not fit very well in the script....it could have been something more solid.
Harry Sankey = The Tragicomic Character
Pros: David's first (and only) film as he writes and directs shows that he has a lot of talent, a real-life story in which we know more about David's personality, embodying Harry, a man who from living a rose-colored life becomes in the blink of an eye a disgrace when his wife dies and this one knowing that his desire was that he appears in a TV contest called precisely Cheeky will make this live situation of the most tragicomic. It is obvious that David made such a film because he has a great appreciation for comedies and black acid humor movies, which I use to emphasize this film. It has a cozy and loving cast: Lesly Sharp (yes, nice reference to Naked) and Eddie Marsan. Perhaps it would be a film that I would advise to see only if you are a fan of him, but Cheeky deserves more attention, a hidden jewel without a doubt.
Cons: Just one, but I think it's a big one, the problem with the whole film is that at any moment it tends to be more comedy or more drama and it's not completely defined at all, and in the end it's neither one nor the other, David tries to make a mixture of the two and finally the film is not as substantial as it could be, in my opinion, I feel that he wanted to make a very careful story and not touch on something insolent because the clear examples of this are several moments of the film such as the plot of the TV show and the creation of the character Trudie Styler, both are great ideas that he embodied in the film but do not fit very well in the script....it could have been something more solid.