England Is Mine review: The story of anguished teenage years of Mancunian Steven Morrissey
ENGLAND Is Mine is probably not the film that Morrissey fans hoped for.
Dunkirk’s Jack Lowden gives a plucky central performance in England Is Mine
ENGLAND IS MINE (Cert 15; 94mins)
This is the story of the anguished teenage years of Mancunian Steven Morrissey (Jack Lowden) before guitarist Johnny Marr (Laurie Kynaston) and fame and fortune came knocking on his door.
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Fans may also be disappointed by the absence of any of The Smiths music.
Instead we experience Morrissey’s awkward adolescence spent alone and miserable in his bedroom or hovering on the sidelines of life feeling superior to everyone around him.
It is a suitably grey and gloomy portrait of the artist as a young man with an eclectic soundtrack and a plucky central performance from Dunkirk’s Jack Lowden.