
Fit, young and handsome Pete has the whole world at his feet. Like many other guys his age, he has a dream, and he's willing to pursue it. Pete arrives in London with the hope of increasing his business as an escort. When Pete meets London boy, Kai, a fellow escort on the scene, romance blossoms. But while Pete can easily separate his job from his love life, Kai has a harder time sharing his boyfriend with clients. Both men want different things from life but at what cost?... (Full plot summary below)
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Fit, young and handsome Pete has the whole world at his feet. Like many other guys his age, he has a dream, and he's willing to pursue it. Pete arrives in London with the hope of increasing his business as an escort. When Pete meets London boy, Kai, a fellow escort on the scene, romance blossoms. But while Pete can easily separate his job from his love life, Kai has a harder time sharing his boyfriend with clients. Both men want different things from life but at what cost?
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| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsGreek Pete proves what we had long suspected. Life imitates Mike Leigh films, at least in Britain. So do many aspiring filmmakers when trying to look with wit and forlorn truthfulness at the reality of Britain |
| Sky CinemaTim EvansThe line where Haigh's docu-dram crosses from fact into fiction isn't clearly drawn and this is where it falls down as a representation of life as a rent boy. |
| Time OutPaul BurstonSometimes funny but more often sad, what emerges is the emptiness of these boys' lives. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchThe sex is tumescently explicit, the life dull and sad. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineShot like a doc but clearly dramatised, this British film about a rentboy is colourfully entertaining, and it definitely has its moments. But it also becomes preachy as it goes on, and struggles to keep its central character engaging. |
| Film4Ali CatterallThe overriding image we're left with is that of a rather shallow young man, operating in a depressingly dreary, soulless and risky environment about which we glean no real insights. And that probably wasn't what Haigh was trying to achieve. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanIt's a black comedy, full of great lines and it deserves to be a mainstream hit. What a shame that it's often unnecessarily graphic. |
| Metro (UK)Larushka Ivan-ZadehWhy not just make a fictional film? Conflating these seemingly mocked-up scenarios with non-actors and their genuine experiences (eg the shoots for porn magazines) just results in an unsatisfying mess. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawThere is a kind of upfront honesty about this film, but also a sinking feeling that there is no real point to it. |
| Times (UK)Toby YoungIt's basically a porn movie, though with slightly more developed characters than normal. It should do well on DVD in the video emporia of Old Compton Street, but don't expect it to light up the multiplexes in Romford. |