SEAFOOD (2005).

Seafood : BBC Film Network
UK, short film, 10', 2005
Stars Daniel Ryan and Navin Chowdhry.
Hard to tell which was more interminable this year, the snow or the Oscars, but once they're gone spring is officially sprung. Seeking a few seasonal green shoots, we welcome the budding BBC Film Network website, which is replete with fresh handfuls of British shorts. Newbie director Robin Baker is currently the pick of the bunch, with a sweet-and-sour gay drama whose cautious Colin forsakes his supermarket cruising ("Organic courgettes and a bunch of Fairtrade bananas - he's not making ratatouille, he's boasting!") for a night on the pull with hedonistic Naveen, a man magnet whose motto is "Never ask their names". As the pubs, clubs and drunken dares pile up, Colin finds that he's looking for love in all the wrong faces. Navin Chowdry (one half of Teachers' Brian-and-Kurt double act) does his pint-sized predator act to perfection, but the real star here is beery, blurry good-time London, all rain-soaked neon and empty promises.

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