AN acclaimed working class feature film will be screened at a community cinema in St Helens this week.
Since its release in May 2022 on Amazon Prime and Apple TV, the Manchester feature film, ‘Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist’, has won more than 60 international film awards and nominations.
These include Best Picture at festivals in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium.
Written and directed by Brett Gregory, it has also received press acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic.
New York’s famous Jacobin magazine hailing it as "the best film about working class Britain in years ... a political triumph" and London’s prestigious Prospect magazine describing it as "a bruising, exhilarating exhibition of British working-class life".
The film, which will be screened at the Lucem House Community Cinema in St Helens on Friday from 7.30pm, stars David Howell from ‘Brassic’ and Reuben Clarke from ‘Peaky Blinders’, along with an award-winning prog-folk soundtrack by Ivor Novello nominated composer, Andrew McCrorie-Shand.
The dark tale of misfortune, misery and madness follows working class Jack as he journeys from the 1980s to the 2020s as a boy, as a youth and as a man through Broken Britain.
"It’s political, poetic and true," Brett enthuses.
"After a screening to a packed house at Leigh Film Factory earlier this year you could hear a pin drop.
"Everyone felt so sad and awkward and guilty about how we mistreat each other and how we ignore each other. It was great.
A Q&A will follow the screening of the film with Brett Gregory and his co-producers, Vedad Rusidovic and Jack Clarke, on Friday, September 22 at Lucem House Community Cinema on Corporation Street.
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