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AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

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Date: 15 Oct 2015 12:45:00
AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

AKA (2002)
Widescreen and Triptych format versions
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | Cover | 01:46:35 and 01:58:33 | 7,06 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: French, Dutch
Genre: Drama

Director: Duncan Roy
Stars: Matthew Leitch, Diana Quick, George Asprey

AKA is the story of a disaffected youth's search for love, status, and identity in late 1970s Britain. 18-year old Dean is handsome and bright, but feels hampered by his working-class background and by his family. In order to make something of himself, Dean assumes another identity and manages to enter high society. As he navigates this decadent new world, he meets a host of characters, including David, an older gay man who desires him, and Benjamin, a young hustler from Texas who has also managed to find a place among the aristocracy. Can Dean find love while living a lie? How much is he willing to sacrifice in order to pull off his charade? Presented through three simultaneous frames rather than one.

IMDB - 5 wins | Wikipedia

AKA is writer/director Duncan Roy's thought-provoking memoir of his own youth. He escaped from a brutal, sexually abusive working-class household by assuming the identity of a young aristocrat and became famous - or notorious - in the process.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

Mr. Roy's movie is brilliantly written, directed, and cast. Matthew Leitch is perfect as Dean, the sweet, innocently seductive young man who desperately wants a better or, to be more precise, another life. His intelligence, looks, charm, and manner make people want to believe he is who he says. All the actors are notable and entertaining. Two are exceptional: Diana Quick as the prickly patrician Lady Gryffoyn, whose son Dean impersonates; and George Asprey as the urbane, strikingly handsome aristocrat who takes Dean under his wing.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

Aside from the fascinating story, imaginative photography done solely with available light, and perfect musical support, AKA is a scathing portrayal of the English class system, where aristocrats rely on certain cues (accent, name, manners, schooling, demeanor) to identify one another and preserve their exclusivity. Dean lives as 'one of them' successfully and happily for over a year. After which he says, quite truthfully if Mr. Roy's portrait of Alexander Gryffoyn is in any way accurate, that he was a better Lord Gryffoyn than the real one could ever be. Mr. Roy depicts a working class equally complicit in maintaining 'place' and limited social mobility.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

After watching the single screen version, the three-screen triptych version, as it was released theatrically, is a wonderful complement which adds dimension to the story. Mr. Roy's commentary is illuminating politically and enlightening cinematically. This is a very personal work of art. The entire ensemble is outstanding, but the talent and beauty of Matthew Leitch bring it all together.
Customer Review, Amazon.co.uk
AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

British filmmaker Duncan Roy is right when he says his life is like "an American dream," but that dream isn't always pleasant, and many Americans would blanch if they knew the full extent of Roy's lying, exaggerating, sexual exploits and drug abuse.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

As it is, Roy's "AKA" only dramatizes a limited part of his life, albeit the most intriguing part: the time in the late 1970s when this undereducated product of a poor, working-class family passed himself off in Paris as "Lord Anthony," the Oxford-bound son of a wealthy, famous socialite in Britain. For "AKA," Roy has changed people's names (the socialite, Lady Clare Rendlesham, becomes "Lady Francine Gryffoyn," and Roy becomes "Dean Page"), shortened the time period and tightened the narrative arc. He's also done something few directors have tried: Instead of a normal, single-screen view, "AKA" shows three small screens at once, which means we see three simultaneous scenes for most of the 118-minute running time.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

At first it's akin to viewing a bank of security cameras, but – like Roy's odd life – the parallel scenes quickly become fascinating to watch. The scenes are often different views of the same action or character; sometimes one of the three scenes alludes to a back story or a memory, or it even foretells a development to come, like the period when Roy (played with dexterity by Matthew Leitch) has an affair with the Marquess of Bristol, a cocaine-addicted playboy who, in "AKA," gets the name David Glendenning.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

"AKA" works so well because there is built-in tension to this fish-out-of- water story. As Roy is hobnobbing with counts, countesses and celebrities in Paris, his past threatens to catch up with him – and he's even tempted to admit his fabricated prominence. Till the very end (for those who aren't familiar with Roy's story), we wonder whether he'll confess his real identity, and what the repercussions will be. Without giving anything away, the character of Dean Page undergoes a real metamorphosis, while the rich and powerful people he meets are often shown as shallow victims of their own class consciousness.

AKA (2002) [Re-UP]

If there's a flaw to "AKA," it's that Roy turns his life into a kind of heroic journey in which lying and manipulation are somehow transforming and redeeming – and forgivable because of the physical and sexual abuse that Roy suffered at the hands of his stepfather. Roy, who directed and wrote "AKA, " can't possibly be objective about his own life. The lessons of that life are debatable, but this is another reason "AKA" is such a gem: Through a thoroughly riveting story that is occasionally funny, it forces audiences to question the value society places on those who have status, and those who want it. Through manipulation of the facts, his own daring and bravado – and the fact he was good-looking and "desirable" – a teenage Roy obtained all the status he wanted. That's why Roy is convinced that "AKA" will appeal to audiences in America, where reinvention, he has said, "is part of (the) culture." It's not a lie to say that "AKA" is an unforgettable film.
San Francisco Chronicle
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