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Dive into two of Alan Clarke's final stark and political made-for-TV films from 1987.
Christine (1987)
Christine follows its title teenager walking endlessly, in and out of a series of homes where she and her friends make small talk, take drugs, and zone out. These actions don't so much repeat as continue, the casual minutiae of them building upon each other to make a likeness of lives nearly lost which, like a kind of poetry, speaks to the senses.
Road (1987)
Road was adapted from a stage play by Jim Cartwright, and explores the lives and frustrations of residents trapped by high unemployment and deprivation in Thatcher's Britain . Unfolding on a derelict street in Manchester during the 1980s, young people wander the streets in search of entertainment as the camera follows them and captures their extended conversations and experiences.