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Christopher Nolan’s gritty neo-noir first feature about a young London writer who gets drawn into a criminal underworld.

Christopher Nolan’s moody low-budget feature debut, shot on contrasty black-and-white 16mm film, is a superbly gritty neo-noir about an unemployed young writer who follows strangers through London in the pursuit of inspiration for his first novel. But his hobby takes a dark turn when he is drawn into a criminal underworld lead by a charismatic thief.