Somers Town

(Shane Meadows, UK) 75min

While Shane Meadows’ last outing, This is England, showed the racist side of British nationalism, his follow-up, the black-and-white Somers Town, demonstrates just how nice the Brits can be to immigrants. Starting life as a short film financed by Eurostar, the resulting feature is an amusing tale of new friendships and lust set in and around St Pancras International. This is Meadows’ most feel-good outing and a pleasant return to irreverent comedy. Thomas Turgoose, the young star of This is England, plays Tomo, a teenager running away from his Midlands domicile to find solace in the big smoke where he is immediately mugged. Luckily, Tomo meets Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a bored young Polish immigrant and together they get up to a joyful series of pranks in this heart-warming lark.

Cineworld, Fri 20 Jun, 5.30pm; Sat 21 Jun, 2.30pm, £8 (£6.40).

More: Film, Reviews (Film), Edinburgh Festivals, Edinburgh International Film Festival, EIFF, Film Festival, Piotr Jagiello, Shane Meadows, Somers Town, Thomas Turgoose

Somers Town

Date	Location
Originally financed by Eurostar as a short film to promote the service's new terminus at St Pancras, Meadows' has expanded his brief to tell a vividly drawn story of childhood friendship and to paint a vibrant portrait of a part of the big smoke that's in all likelihood soon to gentrified out of existence.
3 Dec–4 Dec 9.30	Odeon At The Quay, Glasgow

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