I Know You Know
Stars: Robert Caryle, Arron Fuller, David Bradley | Written and Directed by Justin Kerrigan
The press release for I Know You Know describes the film as both a ‘touching coming of age movie’ and a ‘British father and son thriller’. From the cover art on the DVD, which depicts a furious Robert Carlyle brandishing a gun and newcomer Aaron Fuller running frantically, you might expect to find a ‘gritty’ action adventure inside. In truth, I Know You Know does not fit neatly into any genre in particular and carves its own niche.
In late 80s Cardiff, Charlie (Carlyle) and his son Jamie (Fuller) are on the run. Charlie is undercover, on a secret mission that revolves around the presumably nefarious activities of new satellite television company. Whilst Charlie goes about his top secret business, Jamie spends time at his Uncle Ernie’s house and enrols at a new school,...
Stars: Robert Caryle, Arron Fuller, David Bradley | Written and Directed by Justin Kerrigan
The press release for I Know You Know describes the film as both a ‘touching coming of age movie’ and a ‘British father and son thriller’. From the cover art on the DVD, which depicts a furious Robert Carlyle brandishing a gun and newcomer Aaron Fuller running frantically, you might expect to find a ‘gritty’ action adventure inside. In truth, I Know You Know does not fit neatly into any genre in particular and carves its own niche.
In late 80s Cardiff, Charlie (Carlyle) and his son Jamie (Fuller) are on the run. Charlie is undercover, on a secret mission that revolves around the presumably nefarious activities of new satellite television company. Whilst Charlie goes about his top secret business, Jamie spends time at his Uncle Ernie’s house and enrols at a new school,...
- 5/13/2010
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Robert Carlyle stars in the long-awaited new film from Human Traffic director Justin Kerrigan. Mark checks out I Know You Know...
Nine years after writer-director Justin Kerrigan's award-winning feature debut, Human Traffic, he's returned with a much more gentle and personal effort in I Know You Know. Where Human Traffic brought the rave movement to the screen with electrifying realism, this instead focuses on a semi auto-biographical portrayal of the relationship between a father and a son, in tribute to Kerrigan's own late father.
Robert Carlyle plays Charlie Callaghan, on whom the film opens as he delivers a Travis Bickle-esque assurance to his bathroom mirror that he has everything under control. Specifically, he's on a dangerous mission against telecommunications company Astro-Sat on behalf of Her Majesty's secret service. However, he also has to look after his young son, Jamie, played by Arron Fuller.
The audience sees the story unfold...
Nine years after writer-director Justin Kerrigan's award-winning feature debut, Human Traffic, he's returned with a much more gentle and personal effort in I Know You Know. Where Human Traffic brought the rave movement to the screen with electrifying realism, this instead focuses on a semi auto-biographical portrayal of the relationship between a father and a son, in tribute to Kerrigan's own late father.
Robert Carlyle plays Charlie Callaghan, on whom the film opens as he delivers a Travis Bickle-esque assurance to his bathroom mirror that he has everything under control. Specifically, he's on a dangerous mission against telecommunications company Astro-Sat on behalf of Her Majesty's secret service. However, he also has to look after his young son, Jamie, played by Arron Fuller.
The audience sees the story unfold...
- 4/13/2010
- Den of Geek
I Am Love (15)
(Luca Guadagnino, 2009, It) Tilda Swinton, Pippo Delbono, Flavio Parenti. 119 mins
The result of a seven-year collaboration between its star and director, I Am Love is an extraordinary fusion of tradition and modernity that's a good deal more original than it might seem at first glance. Calling to mind (although not exclusively modelled on) Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian classic The Leopard, with a dash of Barbara Stanwyck's immortal Stella Dallas for good measure, this is a powerful and stylish dynastic melodrama that works on many levels. On the surface, Luca Guadagnino's bold, aggressively contemporary direction attacks an age-old story from all angles, zooming, tracking and tilting as John Adams's affecting symphonic score booms. But at the centre of this storm, Swinton gives a superb, sympathetic performance as Emma, the Russian wife of a Milanese textile magnate, whose reckless affair with a working-class chef sends her privileged life into turmoil.
(Luca Guadagnino, 2009, It) Tilda Swinton, Pippo Delbono, Flavio Parenti. 119 mins
The result of a seven-year collaboration between its star and director, I Am Love is an extraordinary fusion of tradition and modernity that's a good deal more original than it might seem at first glance. Calling to mind (although not exclusively modelled on) Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian classic The Leopard, with a dash of Barbara Stanwyck's immortal Stella Dallas for good measure, this is a powerful and stylish dynastic melodrama that works on many levels. On the surface, Luca Guadagnino's bold, aggressively contemporary direction attacks an age-old story from all angles, zooming, tracking and tilting as John Adams's affecting symphonic score booms. But at the centre of this storm, Swinton gives a superb, sympathetic performance as Emma, the Russian wife of a Milanese textile magnate, whose reckless affair with a working-class chef sends her privileged life into turmoil.
- 4/9/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert Carlyle is terrific in a new film by Human Traffic's Justin Kerrigan, writes Xan Brooks
Cardiff-based Justin Kerrigan scored a home-grown hit with the ramshackle rave comedy Human Traffic in 1999 and then went awol – a casualty, it was rumoured, of the very lifestyle he celebrated on screen. A decade later, he has blown back from the wilderness with I Know You Know, a rites-of-passage drama that amounts to a tender, twisted valentine to his late father, Frankie. Robert Carlyle plays Charlie, a self-styled special operative who darts agitatedly between the pebbledashed estates of South Wales. His adolescent son Jamie (Arron Fuller) regards Charlie as a hero and this may well be the case. But Charlie is also jittery and unstable, a kind of Welsh cousin to Big Vern, the paranoid gangster from Viz magazine. His head buzzes with conspiracy theories; his finger itches on the trigger of his gun.
Cardiff-based Justin Kerrigan scored a home-grown hit with the ramshackle rave comedy Human Traffic in 1999 and then went awol – a casualty, it was rumoured, of the very lifestyle he celebrated on screen. A decade later, he has blown back from the wilderness with I Know You Know, a rites-of-passage drama that amounts to a tender, twisted valentine to his late father, Frankie. Robert Carlyle plays Charlie, a self-styled special operative who darts agitatedly between the pebbledashed estates of South Wales. His adolescent son Jamie (Arron Fuller) regards Charlie as a hero and this may well be the case. But Charlie is also jittery and unstable, a kind of Welsh cousin to Big Vern, the paranoid gangster from Viz magazine. His head buzzes with conspiracy theories; his finger itches on the trigger of his gun.
- 4/8/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
I Know You Know is writer director Justin Kerrigan’s first feature since his 1999 debut feature Human Traffic. It’s the third British film release I’ve reviewed in the last few months following Scouting Book for Boys and My Last Five Girlfriends and I know You Know is easily the most interesting and well performed of the three films.
Starring exceptional newcomer Arron Fuller as 11-year-old Jamie, who moves to a new flat in a neighbourhood in Wales with his unpredictable secret agent father Charlie, played by the brilliant Robert Carlyle, who has to hide low for a short while until a payment comes through for a job Charlie carried out so the pair can move to the Us and live a new life.
Listening to Charlie’s fascinating stories and watching him in action spotting other spies, driving eractically to loose a tail and his meetings with the mysterious Mr.
Starring exceptional newcomer Arron Fuller as 11-year-old Jamie, who moves to a new flat in a neighbourhood in Wales with his unpredictable secret agent father Charlie, played by the brilliant Robert Carlyle, who has to hide low for a short while until a payment comes through for a job Charlie carried out so the pair can move to the Us and live a new life.
Listening to Charlie’s fascinating stories and watching him in action spotting other spies, driving eractically to loose a tail and his meetings with the mysterious Mr.
- 4/5/2010
- by Gary Phillips
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
New from the director of the greatly acclaimed Human Traffic, upcoming UK effort I Know You Know is a bit of an odd beast. Equal parts action-thriller and family drama, the picture stars Robert Carlyle as the loving father of a young son. And also an on-the-edge secret agent. These things do not mix easily.
Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Charlie, a highly charged individual on the edge. He's an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Jamie (Arron Fuller), his son, is fascinated by his father's espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie is unpredictable and explosive, yet kind-hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships him.
With a UK theatrical release coming in early April, the full trailer for this one has just arrived and it looks very good, indeed. With Carlyle in the lead we...
Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Charlie, a highly charged individual on the edge. He's an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Jamie (Arron Fuller), his son, is fascinated by his father's espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie is unpredictable and explosive, yet kind-hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships him.
With a UK theatrical release coming in early April, the full trailer for this one has just arrived and it looks very good, indeed. With Carlyle in the lead we...
- 3/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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