Bolan's Shoes

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Bolan's Shoes

2023

1h 35m

Drama

Music

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A journey through time and the memories of two siblings, Penny and Jimmy, through the care system, and through the glittering glam rock excitement of 1970s Liverpool.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

A shockingly bleak plot about death and trauma unfolds to a zippy T. Rex soundtrack - but, somehow, it works.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 18, 2024

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Ed Potton

Times (UK)

The plotting is muddy, the connection with Bolan’s music feels forced — even though there’s plenty of it on the soundtrack — and the whole thing is rather listless until the last half-hour.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 16, 2023

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

This Wales, Liverpool and London-set drama is a proper melodrama any way you slice it, but one with strong enough performances and sufficiently good dialogue to keep it from feeling tacky.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 12, 2023

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Laura Stott

The Sun (UK)

T. REX were one of the UK’s greatest bands, and Timothy Spall remains one of our most loved actors, but here, the combination of the two do not Get It On.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 15, 2024

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Terry Staunton

Radio Times

Spall plays the bearded loner with affecting subtlety, but it's Best's layered performance as a middle-aged woman clinging to decades-old secrets that leaves a lasting impression.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 24, 2024

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Brian Viner

Daily Mail (UK)

Hats off to him [Ian Puleston-Davies] for a film that is dark in many ways but, ultimately, if you'll forgive my own oblique glam-rock reference, positively sweet.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 29, 2023

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Leanne Best

Penny

Timothy Spall

Jimmy

Mark Lewis Jones

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Mathew Horne

Jez

Holli Dempsey

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Synopsis

A journey through time and the memories of two siblings, Penny and Jimmy, through the care system, and through the glittering glam rock excitement of 1970s Liverpool.

Director: Ian Puleston-Davies
Producer: Greg Barrow, Terri Dwyer, Dean Fisher
Screenwriter: Ian Puleston-Davies
Production Co: Buffalo Dragon
Genre: Drama, Music
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 1h 35m

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