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| | 40 (2003) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | from Saffron Walden, UK "40" is a very modern multi-perspective television drama, with plenty of hand-held camera work and rapid cross-cutting between scenes, telling its story in the minimalist fashion favoured by writers such as Tony Marchant (the stylistic resemblances to "Holding On", in particular, are clear). |
 | | But it feels "natural" while you are watching it; at least, the handling of the plot is in keeping with the overall form of the work. |
 | | "40" isn't bad, but it seems to fit a paradigm for how to make television in 2003, namely, sketch several stories in outline only, then mix up their pieces and hide the thin treatment of each behind the breadth of the whole. |
| www.imdb.com /title/tt0352034 (485 words) |
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