Film Club: 8pm Sun 26 Oct 2008

Somers Town

(UK, 2008) Dir: Shane Meadows, 71 mins

Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop

The eagerly awaited new film from the director of This is England. Tommo, just turned 16 and released from social care, runs away to London. Marek is a Polish immigrant, living with his father.A chance meeting in Somers Town, London, leads the two to form an unexpected partnership.

Unknown to his father, Marek begins hiding Tommo in his flat and the two boys begin to earn money from an eccentric entrepreneurial neighbour, Graham.

Maria, the French waitress at their local café, already a photographic muse for Marek, now becomes more of an obsession for the two boys and the centre of all their attention.