Naked: Desperate Days
By September 19, 2005
Naked is the angriest, most bitterly critical attack on the false values of society that Mike Leigh, Britain’s constant chronicler of the tragic comedy of desperate lives Read more »
SYNOPSIS: Mike Leigh’s brilliant and controversial Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter on the lam in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharpe, Leigh’s panorama of England’s crumbling underbelly is a showcase of black comedy and doomsday prophecy, and was the winner of the best director and actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
| Johnny | David Thewlis |
| Louise | Lesley Sharpe |
| Sophie | Katrin Cartlidge |
| Jeremy | Greg Cruttwell |
| Sandra | Claire Skinner |
| Brian | Peter Wight |
| Archie | Ewen Bremner |
| Maggie | Susan Vidler |
| Woman in the window | Deborah MacLaren |
| Café girl | Gina McKee |
| Masseuse | Carolina Giammetta |
| Giselle | Elizabeth Berrington |
| Director | Mike Leigh |
| Screenplay | Mike Leigh |
| Cinematography | Dick Pope |
| Producer | Simon Channing-Williams |
| Editing | Jon Gregory |
| Costumes | Lindy Hemming |
| Music | Andrew Dickson |
| Production design | Alison Chitty |
| Art director | Eve Stewart |
| Casting | Susie Parriss and Paddy Stern |
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