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Return to Waterloo is a 1984 British musical film written and directed by Ray Davies, and starring Tim Roth, Kenneth Colley and Claire Parker. The film shows the journey of a commuter from Guildford to Waterloo in London.
May 17, 1985 · Return to Waterloo: Directed by Ray Davies. With Tim Roth, Kenneth Colley, Claire Parker, Ray Davies. An unnamed Traveler boards the Guildford-Waterloo train and proceeds to daydream about his life and of having interactions with his fellow passengers.
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- Drama, Musical
- Ray Davies
- 1985-05-17
Ray Davies one and only foray into filmmaking, Return To Waterloo is a dark cross between Julien Temple (whose film Absolute Beginners he would later appear in and provide some music for), a Tommy-era Ken Russell and Dennis Potter at his most disturbingly repressed and psycho-sexual.
- Ray Davies
- Waterloo Films, RVP, Channel 4 Television
Return to Waterloo (1985) Directed by Ray Davies Genres - Musical , Fantasy , Drama | Sub-Genres - Musical Fantasy , Rock Musical | Run Time - 57 min. | Countries - United Kingdom | MPAA Rating - PG13
- Ray Davies
Nov 27, 2022 · The film, which stars Tim Roth, was released in 1985, and the idea originated from Davies’ song ‘Return To Waterloo’. At the time, the musician lived in the leafy Surrey town Guildford, and because he didn’t drive, Davies was often found on the commuter train into Waterloo.
Ray Davies. Director, Writer. A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.
The little-seen first and only film by Ray Davies, songwriter and lead singer of The Kinks, is an offbeat musical that takes off from and expands the possibilities of the then-newly emergent music-video format while revisiting many of the themes of Davies’s songs of modern discontent and nostalgia.
