“WITHNAIL & I”: Immensely fun movie. 1987 flick set in 1969; about two layabout, unemployable actors who stagger off to the countryside, where they drink, starve (“I want to eat something’s FLESH!”), attempt to avoid being buggered by Harry Potter’s Muggle uncle, lie, cheat, and run screaming at a bull. …A few minutes after the thing started playing, I thought, “Okay, this has serious potential to be completely awful.” But it isn’t. …It’s somewhat reminiscent of a much more self-indulgent, much less scathing Absolutely Fabulous (with Withnail as Patsy). Not sure what else to compare it to. The guy who plays Withnail (who also starred in Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life, which I Netflix’d instanter) has a kind of Crispin Glover vibe–very o.t.t., stretchy-faced and hollow-eyed and morose-dramatic. …Anyway, lots of fun, highly recommended.


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