The film won several awards, including best director and best actor at the cannes film festival With david thewlis, lesley sharp, katrin cartlidge, greg cruttwell An unemployed mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal london odyssey. The brilliant and controversial naked, from director mike leigh, stars david thewlis as johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic johnny hurls himself around london on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path The central character in “naked” is johnny (david thewlis), who as the movie opens has rough sex with a weeping girl in an alley in some barren northern city, and then steals a car and drives down to london
Directed by mike leigh • 1993 • united kingdom starring david thewlis, lesley sharpe, katrin cartlidge the brilliant and controversial naked, from director mike leigh, stars david thewlis as johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic johnny hurls himself around london on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a. Certainly leigh’s most sincere movie, 1993’s naked, opens with protagonist johnny, played by david thewlis, raping a young woman in a manchester alleyway before he flees to london to seek refuge in the house of a former girlfriend, louise (lesley sharp).
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