Wednesday, 2 September 2026 at 9 pm
Directed by: Mike Leigh
United Kingdom, 1983
Very shy Colin lives in a run-down London flat with his parents and older brother Mark. Mark is sarcastic and manipulative, often at Colin's expense, and both brothers receive social welfare benefits. In the neighbourhood lives a kind-hearted girl, Hayley, who Colin fancies and who fancies him back, and there is also the violent local skinhead Coxy who befriends the brothers. Colin and Mark's aunt Barbara is from the upper class and offers Colin the chance to help her redecorate her home, which provokes jealousy in Mark…
After a series of television series he directed during the 1970s and early 80s, Mike Leigh, 12 years after his film debut, returned to directing a feature film in 1983. Unlike his feature debut, Meantime was a television production, but following its television premiere, it had a limited theatrical release and was also shown in one of the side programmes of the Berlin International Film Festival, one of the “big three” (Cannes, Venice, Berlin); also, like the debut, it was shown at the key Chicago Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Hugo for Best Film. It is a recognisably Leigh-esque work from that period, relying on a bleak realism (this was the era of Margaret Thatcher's repressive right-wing government) and strong performances from its cast, in which two future stars stand out – Tim Roth as Colin and Gary Oldman as Coxy, while Phil Daniels is no less impressive as Mark.
Review by: Damir Radić
Tickets for the screening on 2 September 2026 at 9 pm can be purchased online HERE, as well as at the Surogatkino KIC box office one hour before the start.