The UK Film Council is being wound down – so could this be the final curtain for the soap opera that is the British film industry, or is it just what it needs?
If one were to dramatise the history of the British film industry, it probably wouldn't be a film at all. A soap opera would suit it better. How else to frame this litany of false dawns and hubristic triumphs; ignominious collapses and agonised soul-searching? On and on the drama runs, dragging so much history in its wake that certain incidents start repeating themselves, and the latest cliffhanger can look suspiciously similar to the last.
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