This sensitive film was shown on cable recently. "Dirty Filthy Love" takes a real look at brilliant architect, who by all accounts, should be at the top of his profession, yet, suffering from Tourette's syndrome, his life goes into a spiral that will consume him, until the love of a woman, who is afflicted by a severe depressive condition, helps him get out of the hole he has dug in his obsessive state.
Director Adrian Shergold, working on the screen play by Jeff Pope and Ian Puleston-Davies, has created a movie that deals with the subject it presents in a realistic way and stays away from fictionalizing, or even romanticizing the illness that Mark, the young architect suffers.
Mark's malady is responsible for his separation and divorce from Stevie, a beautiful young woman, who clearly doesn't understand her husband. Mark's situation is aggravated when he loses his job and then starts unraveling out of control as he relies on the prescriptions his doctor keeps increasing as a way to help him, but in reality, those drugs keep working against him.
When Mark meets Charlotte, an eccentric, but sweet natured young woman at the doctor's office, it helps him to want to change the way he lives. By joining this woman and five other people that meet regularly for a group therapy session led by Charlotte, Mark seems to realize, at first, there is a solution, but ultimately, when it's clear Stevie doesn't want anything more to do with him, sends him into a frenzy. At the end, Mark finally understands that Charlotte is the only one that cares for him.
This film boasts two great actors at the top of their form: Michael Sheen and Shirley Henderson. There is no false moments in this film that at times, has such an intensity, but then, there are fun moments as the director coaxes his two leading couple into giving an uncomplicated reading out of their complicated characters. The rest of the supporting cast is good, but this is clearly a Sheen-Henderson film that they dominate thoroughly.
Adrian Shergold shows he is a director who clearly understood these people, judging by the way he created a serious movie dealing with real people.
Director Adrian Shergold, working on the screen play by Jeff Pope and Ian Puleston-Davies, has created a movie that deals with the subject it presents in a realistic way and stays away from fictionalizing, or even romanticizing the illness that Mark, the young architect suffers.
Mark's malady is responsible for his separation and divorce from Stevie, a beautiful young woman, who clearly doesn't understand her husband. Mark's situation is aggravated when he loses his job and then starts unraveling out of control as he relies on the prescriptions his doctor keeps increasing as a way to help him, but in reality, those drugs keep working against him.
When Mark meets Charlotte, an eccentric, but sweet natured young woman at the doctor's office, it helps him to want to change the way he lives. By joining this woman and five other people that meet regularly for a group therapy session led by Charlotte, Mark seems to realize, at first, there is a solution, but ultimately, when it's clear Stevie doesn't want anything more to do with him, sends him into a frenzy. At the end, Mark finally understands that Charlotte is the only one that cares for him.
This film boasts two great actors at the top of their form: Michael Sheen and Shirley Henderson. There is no false moments in this film that at times, has such an intensity, but then, there are fun moments as the director coaxes his two leading couple into giving an uncomplicated reading out of their complicated characters. The rest of the supporting cast is good, but this is clearly a Sheen-Henderson film that they dominate thoroughly.
Adrian Shergold shows he is a director who clearly understood these people, judging by the way he created a serious movie dealing with real people.