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Filth and Wisdom (2008)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Filth & Wisdom is a poignant view of the lives of three not quite ordinary friends settled into meaningless jobs that barely keep them afloat while helping to finance their dreams of bigger and brighter futures. Their unqiue yet universal stories capture their struggles that are at turns funny and tragic but always brutally honest. Their intertwined lives explore the inevitable: a path paved with filth will often end in wisdom and one paved with wisdom will often end in filth.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, stylized, weird, cult film
Plot:
rock, introspection, buddies, desire for fame, follow your dream, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hopes, sex, bdsm, fetish, friends, gypsy, nightclub, ballet school, poetry, dominatrix, cultural revolution, russian immigrant, punk band, punk, erotic thriller, urban, red panties, black panties ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, london
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