Lindsay Anderson

Biting class satire in the films of Lindsay Anderson

The director's oeuvre returns to London's BFI Southbank and re-emerges as startlingly relevant.

Jennifer Jasmine White, The Financial Times, 3rd May 2024

I had forgotten just how wonderful this series is - albeit wonderful in a deadpan sort of a way. The director Lindsay Anderson said once that the key to success was in the casting, and that is certainly the case here. Tonight, Magda (Anna Crilly), the surly East European help, moves in with the family because 'boiler is leaking gas'. She partitions the fridge like the Berlin Wall and poisons the son with her carthorse sausages, while Mel (Raquel Cassidy) - the wife who usually manages to keep it all together - gets splendidly drunk. I laughed out loud, which woke up my mother-in-law and startled the dog.

David Chater, The Times, 13th November 2008