A painful coming-of-age forms the core of Shane Meadows' period drama that combines a splash of early '80s pop-culture nostalgia with its darker political and social corollaries
In one corner we have Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller riffing on the characters they're most often playing; in another, the endless collusion of media and entertainment.
In an age of frantic, overly silly comedies, Mr. Bean's myopia and his everyday mishaps recall the gentler and more subtle work of Chaplin, Keaton and Tati.
