Grave business … Paul McGann as Arthur in The Undertakerhis low-key thriller, set in the late 1950s-early 60s judging by the costumes, harks back to the regional British crime flicks of that period, the sort of movies where penny-stakes gangsters and spivs in shiny suits clash over who will control the ration-card black market.
It’s not immediately clear why Arthur agrees to take on this shady extra business, but perhaps it has something to do with his late brother who had a gambling habit that got him into trouble with Finlay. Or maybe Arthur just fancies some extra cash. It’s hard to tell given how buttoned-down and clenched of jaw McGann’s performance is, playing a man obsessed with keeping the doors between his work life and private life closed and locked, literally as well as figuratively.
Wright and his team deliberately turn down the colour saturation and favour brown and grey tones in the production and costume design, so that everything looks like it was developed in weak tea. It gets a little oppressive over the long haul but there are a few sparkly moments: for instance an overwritten speech given by Tara Fitzgerald, playing an embittered nightclub singer, about the physics and metaphysics of snooker. It’s a terribly pretentious bit of writing, but she nails it.
in one of his last performances, playing Arthur’s retired co-worker Lenny who phlegmatically expects his own death will come soon and has very firm opinions on what kind of coffin he wants.
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