Underground

Ett självklart mästerverk för vår nutidshistoria.

Treated to a typically slick restoration by the BFI, Asquith's subterranean melodrama is a fascinating journey back in time.

...it's terrific: an elegantly crafted melodrama with exotic and futurist London locations, and echoes of Lang and Hitchcock.

...is a randy peepshow, a thorny docu-tangle of real-life horror and magical realist wish fulfillments.

What's primarily fascinating about the film that is operates as much as a piece of newsreel or documentary as it does a fictional thriller.