The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Last night, our chosen movie was The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a low budget English film starring Gemma Arterton, who seems to be everywhere at the moment, what with The Prince of Persia (where Emma thinks she is great as the fiesty princess) and Tamara Drewe, which I am very keen to see having re-read the "graphic novel" recently.

Tha main comment I had read about this movie was that it was a brave performance by Arterton - afterall she is tied naked to a bed with a ballgag in her mouth early on in the film. Indeed I read an interview with her when the movie first came out talking about this very fact. But any suggestion that her performance has an sort of erotic undertone is completely incorrect. The film is a little odd with two really surprising moves that rather took Linda and myself by surprise - the shock when she finds out that she knows one of the kidnappers and the shock when it turns out that the two male leads are gay and were lovers in jail.

But overall we rather enjoyed it. Arterton is very good, though I doubt we would have guessed it was her if we hadn't known beforehand. Indeed all three members of the cast are pretty good - yes, it only has three cast members, only two indoor locations and hardly any outdoor shots - this really is low budget!

Not sure we would have recognised Gemma Arterton


She does have very nice legs!