RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO

UK, 1987,  COLOR, DCP, 93’,  ENGLISH

"Thatcher's Britain with her knickers down" was the tagline of the film and its radical creator intended exactly that: a mocking, bitter satire of (loose) morals and class inequalities that cannibalized any notion of romance and political correctness, through the story of two schoolgirls who lose their virginity to a slimy married man and then enter into an affair with him, thus trying to amuse their boredom in their little town. A merciless chronicler of British reality, Alan Clarke turns sex into a political act, makes his heroines respond with insolence to the collective apathy, and draws from their erotic antics perhaps the most suitable joke of the entire film: If the whole country is getting f**ked, why not us?

DIRECTOR: Alan Clarke
SCREENWRITER: Andrea Dunbar
DoP: Ivan Strasburg
MUSIC: Michael Kamen
EDITOR: Steve Singleton
PRINCIPAL CAST: Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp
 

ALAN CLARKE (1935-1990)
English director. Οne of the most distinctive voices of the progressive British media of the era. He worked mainly for television (ITV, BBC), where he delivered numerous television theatre productions. He marked his era with his acerbic and politically uncompromising stance.
 
FILMOGRAPHY
1987 Rita, Sue and Bob too 
1985 Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire 
1979 Scum