Yesterday 2019
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Also seen by this director: T2
Trainspotting, London Olympics Opening, 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire,
Sunshine, Millions, 28 Days Later, A Life Less Ordinary, Trainspotting,
Shallow Grave
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Meera Syal, Joel
Fry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Alexander Arnold, Ed Sheeran, Kate McKinnon, Sarah
Lancashire, Robert Carlyle (uncredited but I recognised him!)
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have
seen this actor in:
o
Himesh Patel – nothing yet but I see he’s
in the series Station Eleven and that I must see
o Lily James – Mamma
Mia 2, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Downton Abbey,
Cinderella,
o
Meera
Syal – Curry Nam Nam, Absolutely
Anything, Broadchurch, Doctor Who, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
- Sanjeev Bhaskar – Unforgotten, Curry Nam Nam, Absolutely Anything,
Doctor Who, The Zero Theorem, Notting Hill
- Sarah
Lancashire – Last Tango
in Halifax, Doctor Who
- Robert
Carlyle – T2
Trainspotting, SGU Stargate Universe, Stone of Destiny, 28 Days Later,
Flood, Hitler, Black and White, Once upon a Time in the Midlands, The
World Is Not Enough, The Full Monty, Hamish Macbeth, Carla’s Song,
Trainspotting, Go Now, Riff-Raff
- Why? Boyle, nostalgia
- Seen: 28 June 2020
Jack (Patel) works in a supermarket by
day, plays his guitar and sings his own songs at poorly attended gigs on
evenings and weekends. Until he tells his manager and friend Ellie (Jones) that
he’s played his last gig. He gives up.
Then there’s a strange global electrical
surge, Jack is hit by a bus and everything changes. For one thing, none of his friends have ever
heard of the Beatles and don’t recognise ‘Yesterday’ when he sings it for them.
He discovers to his horror that the world has never heard of the Beatles. Even
his collection of their LPs don’t exist.
Feverishly he tries to remember the
lyrics to all their songs then he starts playing them at gigs, passing them off
as his own.
Patel is perfect, the story is clever and
funny and heart-warming.
What an absolute gem of a film.
5*
of 5