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A-FP Films | Nefarious [18] 2024 Dir. Michael O'Bernicia

Kim Bodnia, Conor Woodman, Spek, Guy Porritt, Johnny Melville and Sharon Percy, Tygo Gernandt, Alwien Tulner, Kenan Raven, Willy van der Griendt and Antonie Kamerling.

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"Michael O'Bernicia's Nefarious arrives two decades after its capture on digital video, emerging from the vaults like a time capsule of pre-financial crisis anxieties. Shot for £17,000 across seventeen non-consecutive days in 2005, this Anglo-Dutch road thriller transforms budgetary constraint into visual poetry. The grain of early digital video, once a limitation, now functions as aesthetic armor, lending the proceedings a documentary urgency that recalls the Dogme 95 movement while anticipating Nicolas Winding Refn's neon-noir sensibilities.

At its center, Kim Bodnia—stepping into shoes originally fitted for Christopher Walken—delivers a masterclass in criminal ennui as Michael Elkiar, Europe's premier cocaine importer facing existential dissolution. Bodnia inverts hisPushermenace into something more insidious: bourgeois malaise. His Elkiar is Camus's Meursault reimagined as a suburban drug lord, mechanically maintaining empire while his soul quietly hemorrhages. The parallel narrative of small-time dealers Lez and Billy (Conor Woodman and Spek) functions as both cautionary tale and nostalgic elegy, their Amsterdam coffeeshop dreams spiraling into hallucinogenic tragedy that mirrors Elkiar's domestic collapse.

O'Bernicia's screenplay excavates drug prohibition's hypocrisies with surgical precision, constructing a universe where karma operates as inexorably as market forces. The handheld Amsterdam sequences evokeRun Lola Run's anarchic energy filtered through Antonioni's existential dread, while the climactic showdown at Cowgreen Reservoir transforms British countryside into Greek tragedy. What elevates this beyond genre exercise is its profound empathy for characters trapped within systems of their own making—Elkiar's marital crisis unfolds with Bergmanesque devastation while Lez and Billy's doomed friendship channelsWithnail and Ifor the MDMA generation.

The film's treatment of masculinity feels particularly prescient: men undone not by external forces but by emotional inarticulacy, finding expression only through violence and intoxication. O'Bernicia stages their unraveling with the tonal complexity of Mike Hodges'sGet Carter, mixing dark comedy with genuine pathos. The remastered soundtrack adds temporal vertigo, its contemporary landscape clashing productively with mid-2000s digital aesthetics to create a dreamlike meditation on time's circular nature.

Nefarious emerges as that rarest creature: genuinely independent cinema using limitation as liberation. Its twenty-year gestation has transformed zeitgeist capture into universal meditation—a Sisyphean exploration of survival's price in a world where everything, including redemption, is commodified. The final image, pregnant with dramatic irony, suggests there are no clean exits in the economy of crime, only varying degrees of collateral damage. O'Bernicia has delivered a retro-cult classic that feels both utterly of its time and urgently contemporary."

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Nefarious [2024] | Dir. Michael O'Bernicia | UK / Holland

Cast: Kim Bodnia, Conor Woodman, Spek, Tygo Gernandt | 84 mins | IMDB: 7.2 stars

A-FP Rating: BBFC 18

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The Great British Mortgage Swindle [12A] 2018 Dir. Michael O'Bernicia

Watch the Official Trailer for the 5 star hard-hitting documentary feature film which lifts the lid on institutionalised mortgage registration fraud in the UK, the corruption within the judiciary and the brutality of eviction by the Michaels of Bernicia & Deira.

The Great British Mortgage Swindle [2018] | Dir. Michael O'Bernicia | UK

Main Cast: Michael O'Bernicia, Michael O'Deira, Tom Crawford, The Alberts

104 mins | IMDB: 7.2 stars

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CRITICAL REVIEW

In the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, the UK housing market collapsed, the reality of which was much more shocking that the public ever imagined.

Insolvent banks were lending money they didn't have; mortgage fraud had been common practice for decades; conveyancing solicitors were giving illegal advice; whilst the police were violently enforcing the selective application of the law.

Then, when all seemed lost, a call to action rallied thousands from all over Britain, in support of the mavericks who took on the might of the banks, armed with nothing except the facts.

The Great British Mortgage Swindle is their story.

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