Ah, interesting! My evaluation of it was more positive - I didn't think it was great, with the main gripe being that a lot of the avant garde elements of it seemed pretty amateurish rather than intellectual, but I did think it was well-directed in terms of the steady creation of an atmosphere. I said that I thought it was a bit similar to
Berberian Sound Studio - I thought that it had the same sort of theme of the surrealist deconstruction of a quite pronouncedly British psyche, and I really quite enjoyed that; but again, while the abstractedness of
Berberian Sound Studio all seems quite well thought-out and planned, there were parts of
A Field in England that seemed just a bit too throwaway - perhaps a bit closer to dadaism than surrealism.
In other news, I've been inordinately excited about this movie since it went into production:
[video="youtube;vUQNjfhlREk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQNjfhlREk[/video]
Just look at that cast.
I had the privilege of seeing Mr Ejiofor perform live in
A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic a couple of weeks ago, and he was absolutely magnificent.
I'm quite interested to see what sort of role Fassbender is going to have in it, though: in both of McQueen's previous feature-length projects, his characters were very much in the spotlight and his performances (perhaps consequently) particularly nuanced; I wonder if being in a side-role will cause him to become more one-dimensional (which is what the trailer seems to suggest to me - though I have a great deal of faith in his talent, so I'd remain optimistic).
Anyway, just about to sit down to watch
Uzak.