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Written by Sheila Seacroft
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17 06 2009 |
Directed by Nick Moran
The life of music producer Joe Meek, depressive, satanist, eccentric, gay (when it was still illegal), innovative, paranoid, tone deaf, ought to make a fascinating film. But this isn't quite it. Based on the play also by Nick Moran, it lurches from pantomime to stereotype to melodrama to muddle to tragedy. Yet by the end, despite a powerful central performance from Con O'Neill, who also played him onstage, we know little about the man.
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