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 n a love letter to analog filmmaking, writer/director Garth Jennings’s (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) semi-autobiographical Son of Rambow follows the burgeoning relationship between a pair of British schoolboys: the oppressed-by-evangelicals, Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) and the charismatically unbound grifter and miscreant, Lee Carter (Will Poulter). Subsequently, Stallone-worship, zealot courtship, self-reflexiveness, poignancy, pathos, and cinematic endeavour ensue. The result is a fabulously imaginative and sweetly funny meditation on friendship and art.
Brought together by happenstance and a shared love of Rambo, the pint-sized utilitarian auteurs create the titular short film, ostensibly to enter a contest and, more importantly, to escape the strife of fractured home lives and everyday childhood dilemmas (i.e. schoolyard squabbles and parental short fallings). Like Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, Proudfoot and Carter re-imagine (aka “Swede”) a well-known film; in this case: First Blood. However, unlike Gondry’s film, …Rambow is buoyed by a powerful conceit: the imagination of children.
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