Junkhearts

A Soda Pictures discharge of a Coded Pictures and Hustle Prods. presentation. Created by Karen Katz. Directed by Tinge Krishnan. Script, Simon Frank.With: Eddie Marsan, Candese Reid, Romola Garai, Tom Sturridge, Valerie Gogan, John Boyega, Chris Coghill.That hoary proverb about charitable organisation beginning in your own home would seem to be the muse for shorts director Tinge Krishnan's murky debut feature, "Junkhearts." However the moral of the structurally addled urban drama might be summarized another way: It's generally not recommended to allow destitute addicts transfer to your apartment. Youth violence, publish-Iraq trauma and also the class ladder are probably the floating concerns of Simon Frank's alarmist script, however the compressed, splintered narrative offers no room to understand more about one coherently. Presence of Eddie Marsan and Romola Garai as headliners will not be sufficient to draw in eyeballs outdoors the U.K. In bleakest East London, brooding ex-soldier Frank (Marsan) rather rashly consumes prickly black teen Lynette (erratic newcomer Candese Reid), who's sleeping outdoors his local liquor store regrettably, her volatile Irish boyfriend, Danny (Tom Sturridge, miscast), follows. Elsewhere, chic career lady Christine (Garai) frenetically juggles single motherhood, employment along with a robust drug habit: This parallel thread is rarely visited, nevertheless its link with Marsan's story is too apparent. Logic falters because the pic pushes for inexpensively ironic reversals over-ambitious, focus-shy lensing style does not clarify matters.Camera (color), Catherine Derry editor, Alastair Reid music, Christopher N. Bangs production designer, Kristian Milsted costume designer, Camille Benda. Examined at BFI Southbank, London, Sept. 26, 2011. (Also working in london Film Festival -- New British Cinema.) Running time: 95 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com