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An unemployed would-be writer starts trailing strangers through London for material, until the man he is following turns around and confronts him. Drawn into a burglar's habit of entering flats not to steal but to read the lives inside, he sinks deeper than he meant to, and the scrambled fragments of the story only lock into a single line at the very end. Nolan's first feature, shot on weekends with friends on 16mm black-and-white film.
With a budget of six thousand pounds there were no sets to speak of. The London on screen is simply the one Nolan was living in, and the narrow lanes of Soho and Covent Garden are the stage. Walk them today and the width of the alleys and the height of the signs have barely shifted, so the angles you remember from the black-and-white frames are still there to find.
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Filming Locations
Covent Garden London
Covent Garden, where the young man picks one person out of the crowd and starts to follow. The piazza works for that premise precisely because people never stop moving through it, and the crush around the street performers today has exactly the same density.
Berwick Street Soho London
Berwick Street in Soho. This narrow run of market stalls and record shops recurs through the following sequences, and the fact that the street is too tight to keep a safe distance is exactly what supplies the tension.