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GUEST,Malcolm Morris: A Life With Bells On (film) (375* d) RE: Morris: A Life With Bells On 20 Feb 09


I have seen it, and enjoyed it.

If you are looking for "real" Morris, apart from a few clips at Wimborne Folk Fest, there isn't any.
If you are looking for slapstick, car chases, wild sex, fast action, gratuitous violence, well I wouldn't bother if I were you.

But, as Folknacious says above, it is a gentle, entertaining, funny, English comedy that takes a poke at humanity via the Morris. It isn't really about Morris, although dancers will get a few more chuckles out of it than perhaps the wider public, and folk from south-west England likewise.

The mostly-non Morris audience at Fordingbridge gave the film/producer/lead actor an enormous and unexpected ovation. I guess that meant they liked it.

I am thinking of going to watch it again, probably at Downton, 'cos I'm sure I missed stuff on the first viewing and I spent far too much time at the end looking for familiar sides and faces.

Malcolm


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