We Are the Lambeth Boys
- warm
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle free-cinema / youth, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.
Our read · We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959) reads as a warm, steady, grounded free-cinema · youth · social entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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