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Kinky Boots – Film Review
Film Review
The ObserverKinky Boots
(106 mins, 12A)
Directed by Julian Jarrold; starring Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane PottsKinky Boots, is Priscilla, Queen of the Desert meets The Full Monty. A long-established shoe firm in Northampton making traditional, high-class men’s footwear is going broke and redundancy notices are going out. But the day is saved by the arrival of the most exotic creature to visit Northampton since Errol Flynn joined the local rep company 70 years ago.
The factory’s anxious new boss (Joel Edgerton) meets Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor in his third film in two weeks), a black drag queen working in a Soho club. He comes to the Midlands to be fashion adviser as the firm switches to manufacturing sexy women’s boots strong enough for cross-dressing males to wear.
But will the new product be ready for the Milan Shoe Fair? Do cats walk? Based on a true story, written by experienced TV hands and the cinematic debut of Julian Jarrold who directed White Teeth on TV, Kinky Boots is amusing, predictable in its politically correct sexual politics and has a disarming performance from Ejiofor. Perhaps the most attractive aspect is to see people proudly practising their craft rather than finding some substitute for work such as stripping, swimming the Channel or crime.
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