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| In 1956 Samuel Selvon published a milestone novel about the Windrush generation of black Britons called The Lonely Londoners. Its title would be perfect for this moving, deeply sad documentary about immigrants living at the London end of the A5. There's an affecting sequence featuring Somali exiles, but Isaacs's principal interviewees, from anonymous, racially mixed Cricklewood, are a nonagenarian Jewish refugee from Austria, an Irish barmaid with musical ambitions, an alcoholic Irish labourer, a former German flight attendant running a student hostel, a Burmese cook working at a Buddhist temple, and a Kashmiri hotel porter waiting for his wife to join him. They're an engaging group (two of whom died during the making of the film), and they're sympathetically interviewed, though Isaacs's commentary is on the prosaic side. | In 1956 Samuel Selvon published a milestone novel about the Windrush generation of black Britons called The Lonely Londoners. Its title would be perfect for this moving, deeply sad documentary about immigrants living at the London end of the A5. There's an affecting sequence featuring Somali exiles, but Isaacs's principal interviewees, from anonymous, racially mixed Cricklewood, are a nonagenarian Jewish refugee from Austria, an Irish barmaid with musical ambitions, an alcoholic Irish labourer, a former German flight attendant running a student hostel, a Burmese cook working at a Buddhist temple, and a Kashmiri hotel porter waiting for his wife to join him. They're an engaging group (two of whom died during the making of the film), and they're sympathetically interviewed, though Isaacs's commentary is on the prosaic side. |
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