Funny Cow

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Release date: 20 April 2018

Running time: 103 minutes

Maxine Peake gives a formidable performance as an aspiring female comedian standing up to a violent husband and the sexist Northern England club circuit. If you think that modern comedy is still lacking in gender equality, then this tough, streetwise British film shows that it"s also made giant strides since the in-your-face chauvinism of working men"s clubs in decades past. And yet, ill-treatment by men is something our eponymous heroine is grimly used to, from childhood beatings to an abusive husband (scriptwriter Tony Pitts, on terrifying form). More a film about the power of laughter and how to transform pain into humor than a straight-up comedy, Funny Cow is a fitting showcase for Peake. So often dazzling on stage and television, she"s hilarious and heart-breaking here. There"s fine support too from cast-against-type Paddy Considine as her middle-class paramour and a swooning, melancholic soundtrack by Richard Hawley.

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Production: 2018

Age restrictions: 15

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