I try not to write reissued, repackaged, repackaged.
Anyway, Criterion are re-releasing this classic film in a week!
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Even though I've written more on how Shelagh Delaney - who wrote the play that the film is firmly based on - affected Morrissey/The Smiths here, I will leave you with a quote of his:
'A Taste of Honey' was a sentiment that had not been expressed before its time - far more real than life. It was the Salford of sagging roofs, rag and bone men, walk-up flats, derelict sites, rear-entrance buses, and life in tight circumstances.
Check this out:
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Has life ever been depicted as alive?
Ah love yeh. Cus' you're daft.
