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Black Pond

United Kingdom

2011

83 Min
Color
English
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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DIR Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe

PROD Sarah Brocklehurst

SCR Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe

DP Simon Walton

CAST Chris Langham, Amanda Hadingue, Colin Hurley, Simon Amstell, Will Sharpe, Anna O'Grady, Helen Cripps, Bernadette Russell, Arnab Chanda, Sophia di Martino, Betsy Vriend, Tiani Ghosh

ED Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe

MUSIC Will Sharpe, Arthur Sharpe, Ralegh Long, Nick Sutcliffe

SOUND Paul Cowgill

SXSW (Emerging Visions), Karlovy Vary (Variety's Ten Euro Directors to Watch)

Synopsis

An ordinary British family and their Japanese friend are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Black Pond is an existential comedy drama starring two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langham and double British Comedy Award Winner Simon Amstell. –IMDb

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acidpolly

6Nov12

weird but entertaining

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msmichel

27Jul12

Fantasia '12 A good calling card for Kingsley and Sharpe which one hopes will lead to interesting work. This one is basically a great idea spread over too long a runtime. A mock documentary tracing a family's looking back on their being accused of murder. The family seems so genuine especially the performances of the parents (Chris Langham and Amanda Hadinque) which one can readily identify with. Fun but overbaked.

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Richard Barr

2May12

very slow but i loved it

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BAFTA Nominees and Winners 2012

By David Hudson on January 17, 2012

The Artist leads. Conspicuous in their total absence: Melancholia and The Tree of Life.

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Fantasia 2012: BLACK POND Review

By Twitchfilm.com on July 26, 2012
In the running with Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong as the funniest entry in the Fantasia and possibly of this year so far, I am going to give Black Pond the edge because of its Errol Morris "Life is pretty damn
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SXSW 2012 Review: BLACK POND Mixes Poetic Drama and Dysfunctional Family Comedy

By Twitchfilm.com on March 12, 2012
“I had a dream about ham sandwiches and broadband.” Mixing lovely poetic ramblings with self-consciously quirky comedy sounds like a recipe for disaster, and, truth to tell, there are enough half-baked
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