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Actor Gary Oldman's directorial debut about a dysfunctional South London family is praised for avoiding the moralizing mawkishness of the typical British working-class drama.
Critics say the film, which won the Grand Prize at Cannes, avoids mawkishness despite its heart-wrenching subject matter.
All this mawkishness would likely have annoyed the real Whale, who exited the world on his own terms and steered clear, in his art, of banality.