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ick Love does not mince his words
talking about his particular brand of
cinema: ‘My films. they're not for everybody"s taste. But I don't give a fuck. I constantly think that I have to defend my Iilms particularly with The I‘imlbul/ I'iu‘rmjv and The Business and that I'm accused of making immoral films about blokes who like violence. I‘m making films about blokes that I know about and I'm making a film because it is a film that I and my mates will want to go and see. If I was making films for critics to enjoy I‘d he making different lilms . . . like ls’uii'uli'liw'.‘
liven if you didn't like the aesthetic of
(him/bye ('ltul'lii' Brig/II or The I'imI/m/l I‘ilt'lm'v there‘s no questioning the fact that the 35-year old director has tapped into a certain market and pissed all over it. [ads that a decade ago would have been seen walking out of newsagcnts
carrying a copy of Maxim or [mu/ml under their
arms are now watching Nick l.ove Iilms about
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south l.ondon wide boys drinking. fighting. scoring drugs and hitting on chicks.
'I’lu' Bus‘iiu'ss‘. the closing night film at this year's Iidinburgh I‘ilm Festival. is light years ahead of l.ove's previous efforts in style and content. This time. he has moved the action to Spain‘s (‘osta del Sol. It‘s the l‘)8()s and 'I‘hatcher is in her prime. the New Romantics rule the airwaves and Borg and McIinroe battle it out for the Wimbledon crown wearing Iiila. l)iadora. Sergio 'l‘achini and Adidas. l.ovc focuses in on the cooler aspects of the era. rather than the usual mocking look at enormous shoulder pads and mullet hairstyles.
The action and all the (‘asual gear is wrapped around I’rankie (Danny Dyer). He quits his south l.ondon tower block and moves to Malaga where he is looked after by (‘harlie (Tamer Hassan). a friend of the family who‘s on the run from the British authorities. l.ife importing marijuana from Morocco and hanging out at his cheesy
THE BUSINESS is set in the seedy underbelly of the Spanish town of Malaga, and it features the kind of British thugs who are becoming a trademark of director Nick Love’s films. Kaleem Aftab asks Love why he’s so keen on wide boys.
Frankie (played by Danny Dyer, this page) winds up in Malaga and hangs out with Charlie (Tamer Hassan, in white jacket) and his ex-pat friends
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nightspot is all sun. sea and sangria.
l.ove talks like one of his south l.ondon diamond gee/ers. lle sputters his words out at 100 miles an hour. eating the last consonant of a word as he gobbles up the sentence. He grew up on an estate in south l.ondon and many of the darker adventures of his own eclectic and drug addled past were re-enacted on his directorial debut (him/live ('lIur/ii' Brig/II. l.ove went to film school in the mid—90s and was inspired by filmmakers. such as Spike Lee. who told stories about their own communities.
A quirky fact is that love has obsessive compulsive disorder which makes him hate it when people eat a bag of crisps anywhere near him. He also has a compulsion to cast Danny Dyer in his pictures. l.ovc cites two reasons for this: ‘I find the whole audition process really embarrassing and unbearable. so I just write parts for people. give them the parts and then get on with it. The thing about Danny which sets