Four Lions plus Q&A with actor Nigel Lindsay
2009/UK/94mins/Dir: Christopher Morris
Cast: Julia Davis, Nigel Lindsay, Chris Wilson, Preeya Kalidas, Riz Ahmed, Craig Parkinson, Danny Ashok
From the creator of Brass Eye, a satire based on a group of four Islamic Jihadi terrorists from the north of England.
We are delighted to welcome acclaimed actor Nigel Lindsay (pictured above), who stars in FOUR LIONS as Barry a confrontational former BNP member who finds himself at the forefront of a terrorist plot as one of four British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.
As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that – while terrorism is about ideology – it can also be about idiots.
‘a deliciously subversive comic ride, it truly gunges up the synapses with so many conflicting emotions while the one-liners are flowing that the only thing you can do is give in to its demented logic and laugh…’ Empire Magazine