Keeping Mum (2005)
2005
R
103 Minutes
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
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WHAT I LIKED: 'Keeping Mum' takes the template of a quaint English drama and flips it on its lid with a story about a nanny who goes around killing people to help the dysfunctional family she's looking after. It's an amusing concept, and it works well because on the one hand the tonal juxtaposition between the twee music and village setting and the murdering nanny and sweary vicar's wife is very satirical, and on the other hand a great set of performances bring everything to life. Watching Rowan Atkinson do virtually anything is guaranteed to be funny, Maggie Smith works as the perfect person to play the murdering old lady who just can't see the errors of her ways, and then Kristin Scott Thomas brings some genuine humanity and grounding to the whole thing. In the end it's a great British comedy, and it's one with enough laughs and absurdity that the whole family could enjoy it.
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: It's hardly a serious film with a serious driving narrative, and nor is it one that will produce too many belly laughs either.
VERDICT: A funny comedy that juxtaposes quaint Britishness with absurdist humour, 'Keeping Mum' is no masterpiece, but it's a great bit of fun.0 member like this review.
