Blackly funny and corrosively sad, Mike Leigh's NAKED is a rambling portrait of a young man flying apart at a breakneck pace. Like Leigh's earlier films, which include HIGH HOPES (1988) and LIFE IS SWEET (1991), NAKED is an artfully unpolished, ensemble portrait of a group of people who
are resolutely undistinguished, if not exactly ordinary.
The film opens on a violent sexual encounter in a Manchester alley. Rape? Consensual rough sex? A casual pickup gone awry? It's impossible to tell, but Johnny (David Thewlis)--who's ferociously clever, cruelly funny, and passably attractive--steals a car and flees to London, where he looks up his
old girlfriend, Louise (L...
Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
131 mins