SOMERS TOWN
synopsis
In Somers Town, a London neighborhood by St Pancras rail station, young Tom, who had nothing to keep him back home in Nottingham, encounters Marek, a young Polish immigrant with nothing to fill his days. It's a mismatched friendship: Tom (dubbed Tomo by Marek) is full of youthful swagger and Marek, an amateur photographer who lives with his disciplinarian father, is more introspective and cautious. Their dynamic is uneasy and awkward at first-each teen believes himself to be the more mature-but a genuine rapport develops between the two. And when Tomo and Marek both fall for the same girl, the common ground between them further solidifies.
international title: | Somers Town |
original title: | Somers Town |
country: | United Kingdom |
sales agent: | The Works International |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Shane Meadows |
film run: | 70' |
release date: | UK 22/08/2008, ES 28/11/2008, BE 15/04/2009, FR 29/07/2009, DK 28/08/2009, NL 08/10/2009 |
screenplay: | Paul Fraser |
cast: | Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Elisa Lasowski, Perry Benson, Kate Dickie |
cinematography by: | Natasha Braier |
film editing: | Richard Grahm |
art director: | Lisa Marie Hall |
costumes designer: | Jo Thompson |
producer: | Barnaby Spurrier |
production: | Big Arty Productions, Tomboy Films |
distributor: | StudioCanal, Festival Films (ES), Ad Vitam (FR), Brunbro (BE) |