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The Lives Of The Saints (15)

  • Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, violence and sex references
  • Run time: 1 hour 41 mins
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release date: 2nd February 2007

Plot Synopsis

The Lives of the Saints is a dark and bizarre morality tale whereby fantastical events take place in the ordinary surroundings of modern-day London.

The story unfolds in the cafes, clubs and shops of Green Lane where Mr Karva is the boss; a ridiculous yet dangerous man who is known and feared by all. Othello, his stepson is the young pretender, palling around with his girlfriend Tina and his weak-willed lackey Emilio. Live revolves around socialising, gambling and trying to scrape together a modest living.

But that lifestyle is about to be thrown into disarray by an otherworldly, sickly looking ten year old child. Mr Karva's errand boy. Roadrunner, stumbles across the child in the part and offloads his bizarre find in Othello's basement.

Thus begins an exhilaratingly strange series of events. It seems that the child is able to grant others their innermost desires. Mute and intense all he has to do is look into your eyes and everything you ever wanted will come true. Soon Othello's dreams of unlimited wealth become a reality. True to form, his tyrannical stepfather wants to muscle in on the action.

Mr Karva watches with mounting frustration as all around him get their own taste of heaven. It's paradise on the streets of north London, but family ties and relationships are becoming increasingly strained and as Mr Karva himself says "Every paradise has got its serpent". He persuades the unstable Emilo to take the matter into his own hands and a battle for possession of the child ensues.

What unfolds is a disastrous descent into loss and despair as the tale plummets towards its tragic conclusion.

The Lives of the Saints is a truly original modern-day fable, which warns that what we wish for is not always what we need....