"Jim Hosking is the wacky deadpan surrealist of indie cinema who has now created another bizarre stoner comedy, a two-hander and a bit lower budget than his earlier works such as The Greasy Strangler and An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn. It is like an epic-length Mitchell and Webb sketch in fact, the kind of film you find yourself laughing along to, just a bit, in a spirit of throwing in the towel"
"The setting is Mull of Kintyre in 1981, and a pop star called Paul, with a strangely familiar but also entirely ersatz Liverpool accent, is welcoming a visitor, who arrives implausibly by rowing boat through the choppy grey sea. This is a blind Black pop legend called Stevie, who appears nonetheless to be able to see (and derisively imitate) Paul's quirkiest mannerism whenever he gives it: a perky thumbs-up."
A wacky deadpan surrealist indie stoner comedy uses a low-budget two-hander format that evokes an epic-length sketch and delivers reluctant laughter through mugging and exaggerated gestures. Set in Mull of Kintyre in 1981, a faux-Liverpool pop star named Paul welcomes a visitor who arrives by rowing boat: a blind Black pop legend called Stevie who nevertheless mirrors Paul's quirky thumbs-up. Their conversations alternate wariness, hostility, and tentative tolerance as they share tea, whisky, and a doobie. The pair embark on peculiar adventures—icy swims, dressing as sheep, and surreal antics—without ever actually composing the promised pro-harmony pop single.
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