Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. (2018)

Original title

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Directed by

Ben Wheatley

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Colin Burstead rents a country house for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Family tensions and buried resentments come to the surface over the course of the evening.

tensemelancholiccharacter-drivenclaustrophobicwryuncomfortablegroundedslow-burn

What happens

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is a 2018 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Ben Wheatley and featuring Neil Maskell as the title character, with Sarah Baxendale, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Doon Mackichan, Joe Cole, and Charles Dance also starring. It tells the story of a man who rents a country house for his extended family to celebrate the New Year. The film premiered at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival on 11 October 2018, and was distributed by BBC Films, airing on BBC Two on 30 December 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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