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  Mark Nash & James Swanson
One Hour Later
  UK 1987
Videotape, 24:35, colour
'One Hour Later' is based on the last chapters of Sartre's 'La nausée'. This novel is dominated by a pervasive feeling of uselessness and the inability to relate to anybody or anything. In the late forties this attitude to life was expressed in the popular songs of Juliette Greco, who was always dressed in black. In a typically French setting, but seen through equally typically British eyes, we are as it were introduced again to this existentialist attitude. Again: because it is oh so ... British! The props are French: the Ricard ashtray, the packet of Gitanes and the red wine. But their use: the wine is in a kind of mustard jar, the smoking by our protagonist is, with all due respect for his acting, so un-French. These remarks are certainly not meant as criticism, rather they indicate an original interpretation of, what is by now, a classic novel.

Henny Kamphuizen

Scenario, camera: Mark Nash, James Swinson, Editing: John Gulliver, Mark Nash, James Swinson, Sound: Cat Johnson, Sophie Dutram, Music: Benjamin Brittan, Sophie Tucker, Production: Zero One, With: Mel Jones, Colette Rye