You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
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PARK CITY, Utah — Meet Dominic Noonan, gangland boss and protagonist of a new film called “A Very British Gangster.” Dom is a big guy with a big bald head; he has people beaten up, tortured, killed. When he and his thugs patrol their home turf of Manchester, England, in suits and ties, director Donal MacIntyre cues the music and the slow motion. Quentin Tarantino’s gangster flick “Reservoir Dogs” comes to mind at other points, too, notably in a pool-hall scene in which Dom sits at a table in mid-conversation and the camera orbits him as if he exerts his own gravitational pull.
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