Here for Life
The term “experimental documentary” is often one to strike fear into the soul but Here for Life manages to be engaging, informative, entertaining and uplifting and is a good reminder that if you get the basics right, the rest will follow. Number one basic is engage your audience. In an early scene a couple of geezers meet before day has broken outside Billingsgate Fish Market in London’s East End. It’s right in the shadow of the massive Canary Wharf financial district full of JP Morgan and CitiBank glass and concrete. Old London and new. In they go, this trio, and are soon engaging the wholesale fishmongers in the usual documentary-style to-and-fro. One of … Read more