Lovely b/w photography. June Ritchie is excellent as Marge, the bored housewife who works in a department store selling handbags and has a little daughter of about four, minded by her mum every day. Mum lives next door, and has a lodger, Harry, with a roving eye and a seedy strip club. Marge has an affair with Harry, but gets too "intense", and Harry moves on to Marge's sister Jinny, who's engaged to an uptight doctor. All the actors are convincing, but the best thing about this film is the claustrophobic setting: the tiny rooms too full of old-fashioned furniture, the crumbling Victorian terrace houses full of cheery modern touches in the form of bright curtains and formica-topped tables. When not stifling indoors, the cast roam the strangely empty streets under the gas-holder, or occasionally live it up in a ritzy night club, wearing flashy cheap clothes. It's an almost lost world.
Review of This Is My Street
