The Boy and the Bridge

I saw this film two days ago at the BFI. tombancroft2 warns about spoilers, but don't worry, he has just about everything wrong about the story. The story is toe-curlingly twee, but what made the film for me is the location shots. I grew up in that part of London in the fifties and almost all of the outdoor locations are a part of my life. I dearly wish this were available on DVD so that I could freeze frame and dwell on the places so familiar to me from my childhood. There are several scenes shot in Tooley Street, where I went to school a few years after this film was made. And a few years after that, the pub featured in the film became my 'local'.