
A Dawn French number, played as a pseudo faux documentary about a group of actors attending a summer school in which they must accurately portray an iron age village for a few weeks.
Its not bad, the main source of humour seems to come from actors and actresses putting their feelings ahead of the role (a good example being when Rik Mayall's character tells the rest of the troupe that, if they REALLY wanted to be period authentic, they'd all be having lots of sex with all the women, and proposes a rotation orgy)
Fine enough, kind of poigniant in places, subtle but the laughs are quality enough. The lack of proper gut laughs really kind of undercuts this one from being something truely hilarious, but as a work broadly speaking, its good!
source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/summer-school-1983/
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