Jake Bugg ‘Two Fingers’ (Director’s Cut) by Jamie Thraves
Tuesday, 2. October 2012 - 3:30 pm
Jamie Thraves’s first work at his new production company base HSI London is a superb video for Jake Bugg’s Two Fingers.
A bright and breezy portrait of the (very) young troubadour and his mates in his home neighbourhood of Clifton in Nottingham, is suddenly tempered by a dramatic sequence of Jake’s volatile, alcoholic homelife – featuring his mum, played by Vicky McClure (This Is England, A Room For Romeo Brass) and her boyfriend (Craig Parkinson – Control, Four Lions).
But it’s not predictable grittiness either. This is a transfixing spectacle of unpredictable, boozed-up behaviour, where anything might happen at any moment – including something funny. It’s exactly what makes Jamie Thraves one of the UK’s best directors.
Jake Bugg
Two Fingers (Director’s Cut) (Mercury)
Director: Jamie Thraves
Prod co: HSI London
Producer: Scott O’Donnell
DoP: Catherine Derry
Art director: Ruth Crawford
Costume designer: Aradia Corckett
Make Up: Eve Marie Coles
Cast: Vicky McCure & Craig Parkinson
Editor: Sally Cooper at Cut & Run
Post production: The Mill
Grade: James Bamford at The Mill
Exec producer: Beth Montague
Commissioner: Natalie Arnett at Mercury Records
Watch: here
