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Keeping Mum – the absurdities of the English Middle Class

Posted on October 5th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer

Tweet Keeping Mum – Niall Johnson Not quite Ealing – but close. At times. Ealing comedies were all about tone: a kind of arch, insouciant darkness to relish not just enjoy. The logic of the English social class system followed through to its ultimate absurdity. All the fixed butts of Englishness that were affectionately ridiculed […]

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