Naked (1993)

Essential Viewing

UK

Feature Film
Writer/Director: Mike Leigh
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Composer: Andrew Dickson
Cast: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, Peter Wight, Ewen Bremner, Susan Vidler, Deborah MacLaren, Gina McKee

Thewlis’s brilliant, disquieting performance as a violent and misanthropic yet viciously intelligent Mancunian drifter, who absconds to London, verbally provoking anyone that comes across his path, forms the coruscating centre of Leigh’s stunning, scabrously funny, and grimly moving exploration of desperate lives. Iain.Stott