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Secretary (TTT)
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Tue 9 March 2004 // 21:15
SECRETARY (TTT)
(Steven Shainberg / 106min/ 2003 / cert 18)
(Tue 9th/ 9.15pm / £2)
International Women's Day was on the 8th March and for this reason the Cube is showing Steven Shainberg's Secretary as a special TTT.
It's no surprise to discover director Shainberg checked out Mike Leigh's canon prior to shooting Secretary. As with experiencing Leigh's films, the more we watch Secretary's cast of oddballs going through their quirky paces, the more we find an alarming resemblance to ourselves, neither ciphers nor caricatures, but a deeply irrational bunch, prone to the usual hang-ups, fuck-ups and desires.
Sensibly, Secretary, based on a short story by literary bad girl Mary Gaitskill, wears its otherness lightly: if S&M no longer packs much of a punch in the taboo stakes (except among tittering Hollywood execs) this one's less concerned with the forensics than the people and motives therein, the harnesses and handcuffs being mere hooks to hang a touchingly funny love story on - perhaps the first mainstream (ish) film to do so.
(Steven Shainberg / 106min/ 2003 / cert 18)
(Tue 9th/ 9.15pm / £2)
International Women's Day was on the 8th March and for this reason the Cube is showing Steven Shainberg's Secretary as a special TTT.
It's no surprise to discover director Shainberg checked out Mike Leigh's canon prior to shooting Secretary. As with experiencing Leigh's films, the more we watch Secretary's cast of oddballs going through their quirky paces, the more we find an alarming resemblance to ourselves, neither ciphers nor caricatures, but a deeply irrational bunch, prone to the usual hang-ups, fuck-ups and desires.
Sensibly, Secretary, based on a short story by literary bad girl Mary Gaitskill, wears its otherness lightly: if S&M no longer packs much of a punch in the taboo stakes (except among tittering Hollywood execs) this one's less concerned with the forensics than the people and motives therein, the harnesses and handcuffs being mere hooks to hang a touchingly funny love story on - perhaps the first mainstream (ish) film to do so.