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Skeletons (15) @ Dundee Contemporary Arts Cinema

Here's a name to watch - Nick Whitfield, an actor whose zany first feature Skeletons has just won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival. A highly original debut, Skeletons is a marvellous mixture of surrealism and humour - think Bunuel meets Monty Python, with elements of Beckett and Ealing Comedy, and you'll be close to the mark.

Davis and Bennett are a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they criss cross Britain, performing ‘the Procedure' whereby secrets and lies are exposed. Their services are often procured by couples, or by those simply seeking clarification and resolution in their lives. But being confronted with the truth about one's secrets by someone with the manner of a professional delivering a report doesn't always prove as welcome as it might originally have seemed.

Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley, charming as Davis and Bennett, fight and fuss their way through the story like any odd couple. Jason Isaacs is terrific too as The Colonel, the duo's stern boss, and Danish actress Paprika Steen gives the story an emotional weight as a woman who grieves for her vanished husband and whose daughter won't speak. Beautifully shot and set in a non-specific time period, Skeletons is a highly ambitious, quirky little gem to be savoured.

Contact Details
Venue	Dundee Contemporary Arts Cinema 152 Nethergate Dundee DD1 4DY website
Contact	01382 909 900 mail@dca.org.uk website

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