Jumbo review: a rollercoaster romance
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Review: A Pure Place
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To return to the question of stimulants, there’s a piece of lore in the stand-up comedy world that the performer should be dead sober at the mic, lest they lose their edge; it’s the audience whom you want to be wasted. There’s such a bleary, incoherent feeling to the plotting, ideas and characterisation here, mixing so many incompatible sources (Sadean cults of punishment, stale Tim Burton-esque whimsy), that any profundity eludes its grasp.
The queasy thing is that vulnerable children are so central to the plot.
A Pure Place is mainly seen from the point of view of young siblings Paul (