Something for the dwile flonkers and sword dancers: the BFI has compiled a DVD – Here's a Health to the Barley Mow – celebrating the best of British folk customs and rural games
When you've seen a teenage boy running through a village with a flaming barrel of tar on his head, you might think you've seen everything. But then you indulge yourself further in Here's a Health to the Barley Mow – the BFI's DVD celebrating British folk customs and rural games – and an even stranger Britain comes to light. Here are men swinging fireballs in Aberdeenshire. Here's a boy dressed up as a horse for a Mummers' play in Derby, in sheepskin, with lightbulbs for eyes. Here are the dwile flonkers of Suffolk, led by a man the spitting image of Vic Reeves, who explains, with some glee, what their tradition demands. "A capacity to take beer, I should think – and to be an idiot.
When you've seen a teenage boy running through a village with a flaming barrel of tar on his head, you might think you've seen everything. But then you indulge yourself further in Here's a Health to the Barley Mow – the BFI's DVD celebrating British folk customs and rural games – and an even stranger Britain comes to light. Here are men swinging fireballs in Aberdeenshire. Here's a boy dressed up as a horse for a Mummers' play in Derby, in sheepskin, with lightbulbs for eyes. Here are the dwile flonkers of Suffolk, led by a man the spitting image of Vic Reeves, who explains, with some glee, what their tradition demands. "A capacity to take beer, I should think – and to be an idiot.
- 7/14/2011
- by Jude Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
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