Metroland (1997)

Directors

Philip Saville

Cast

Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Lee Ross, Elsa Zylberstein

The story

In 1977, Chris (Christian Bale) and Marion (Emily Watson) are leading a peaceful married life with their child in Eastwood in the London suburbs known as Metro-land, the staid commuter region at the end of the London Underground's Metropolitan line. Their stagnant life is disrupted by an early morning phone call from Chris's childhood friend Toni (Lee Ross), who's returned to England after several years travelling through Africa, Europe and the United States as a bohemian poet. Years before, the two shared a dream of escaping boring suburban existence to live in avant-garde splendour in Paris.

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