Dir: Kevin Brownlow | UK sci/fi
This work of youthful promise by Kevin Brownlow later became legendary for the duration of its production. Since it depicts an alternate reality, technically – like Robert Harris’ ‘Fatherland’ – it probably qualifies as science fiction; although it’s proximity to the Second World War ensures that London was then pitted with bomb sites and people wearing accurate clothes, which helps provide verisimilitude. All the other period details are also by default equally accurate, so much of it resembles a wartime public information film, with the clothes the people are wearing evoking the era of coupons and sullen acquiescence, @RichardChatten
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