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Set in 1978 England, AKA opens with 18-year-old Dean (Matthew Leitch) being kicked out of his working-class home by his abusive father. Shy but socially ambitious, Dean subsequently finds work with high society marm Lady Gryffon (Diana Quick), who introduces him to the privileged set. However, Dean does something to perturb the good lady, and is unceremoniously kicked out of her household. Loathe to part company with the perks of high society, he assumes the identity of Lady Gryffon's son, Alex,
Jan 1, 2002 Wide
Sep 14, 2004
Empire Pictures
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As the movie goes on (and on), this triple-image effect ultimately starts to feel less effective than what a single, well-placed camera might convey.
The three-panel format gives the digitally shot picture enormous psycho-emotional layering.
Does the radical choice to split up the action contribute anything that couldn't be achieved in a more traditional format? The answer is a well-earned affirmative, and the drama is solid enough to make the whole enterprise worthwhile.
It's an eloquent testament to the fragmentary nature of identity.
An unforgettable film.
Always watchable yet ultimately self-defeating in terms of its tonal / aesthetic choices.
'AKA' is DOA...boring, and boring in an irritatingly complicated way.
The story is an interesting one, so I wanted to like this. I guess with three movies on the screen, I must have been watching the wrong one.
An interesting though not extremely successful experiment, but it definitely makes you want to see what Duncan Roy does next.
Coupling the plot with the presentation -- and the appealing cinematography -- makes AKA a film not to miss.
The triptych scheme underscores the basic blandness of Matthew Leitch as the hero, a cipher on the make.
Roy has told an engaging, complex story with masks under its masks.
Dean, an attractive, 18-year old man living in working-class Thatcher-era Britain, longs to go to college and 'make something' of himself. Trapped in a household with an abusive step-father and a mother who is either unaware or in denial about the situation, events lead to him becoming looked after by a wealthy
April 20, 2007Super Reviewer
AKA is writer/director Duncan Roy's thought-provoking memoir of his own youth. He escaped from a brutal, sexually abusive working-class household by assuming the identity of a young aristocrat and became famous - or notorious - in the process. Matthew Leitch is perfect as Dean, the handsome, sweet, innocently seductive
March 6, 2008
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