Alan Parker
4 titles · british contemporary
Music films and angry dramas about injustice take up most of Alan Parker's career. In The Commitments, a young man just out of school puts together a soul band in north Dublin, and Pink Floyd: The Wall stages a rock star's collapse into isolation. The dramas are blunt: Billy Hayes is sentenced to more than thirty years for drug smuggling in Midnight Express, and two FBI agents investigate the murder of civil rights workers in Mississippi Burning.
Signature
- Music driving the story (The Commitments, Pink Floyd: The Wall).
- Punishing true stories of prisons and racism (Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning).
- Visual polish from his years directing commercials.
- Working-class Dublin humour (The Commitments).
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