Film Festival 09 - In The Loop
In the Loop
UK 2009, 109m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, Tribeca 2009
British political satire takes on Washington in this lacerating
spoof of bureaucratic opportunism. Expanded from Armando Iannucci's
critically-lauded BBC TV series The Thick of It, In the Loop
features a virtuoso comic cast with Peter Capaldi already a legend
as the PM's lethally foul-mouthed Director of Comms. - BG. "A
cynical, razor-sharp, truly laugh-out-loud farce about the
symbiotic relationship between ineffectual, flip-flopping
bureaucrats and the sneaky, petty spin doctors who need them&
while we strain to catch the marginal details and sort out the
hierarchic squabbling, a war is being jointly planned by the US
President and the UK Prime Minister right under everyone's noses.
Dr Strangelove would surely chuckle." - Aaron Hillis, GreenCine.
"Horribly brilliant& The acting is superb, and the writing is
relentlessly funny - vicious and delicious. And refreshingly, there
isn't a sympathetic character in sight." - Peter Bradshaw, The
Guardian
www.intheloopmovie.co.uk
