On May 29 The Goob is due to hit cinemas.
What is the Goob? Not sure. We haven’t seen the film yet.
But director Guy Myhill has assembled a cast of little known, striking looking actors and has focussed on our beloved Norfolk flatlands and the car culture therein. It looks like the racing angle is the context for a coming-of-age tale of a young working class lad finding love, manhood and violence via the thrill of racing.
There’s a welcome Irvine Welsh-like aesthetic and a couple of stupidly photogenic characters in front on the camera. Put that into context of a lot of beautifully slant-lit twilight shooting and for us the film looks like a winner – the sort of slice of culture that focusses on the concerns of the edges of England that’s rarely looked at in the cinema.
And there’s banger racing too, which is a bonus.
Trailer looks very interesting indeed.
