Friday Fun: Mike Leigh's Nuts In May
Nuts in May is a Mike Leigh film that not many people seem to have watched. You should do; it's genius. But it's also a fascinating illustration of how environmentally minded people were seen as complete mentalists as recently as the '70s; Candice-Marie and 'Keef' were about the biggest pair of losers you can imagine. Free range eggs, you say? Getting your protein from vegetables? What on earth were they bleating on about? It's a fascinating look at how much things have changed.
