I Know You Know

This low-budget movie is Justin Kerrigan's first since his 1999 debut, Human Traffic , his lively, extremely promising tale of weekend party people in Cardiff. It takes him back to South Wales, which Robert Carlyle appears to be visiting on a secret intelligence mission with his 11-year-old son, Jamie. However, Jamie and the viewer become steadily aware that all is not as it seems. Dad is in fact a seriously disturbed man for reasons not entirely unconnected with the condition of Wales in the 1980s. The film is apparently based on the director's experiences of his father and the relationship between father and son is well handled. Carlyle gives another frighteningly spooky performance, but as the film begins to explain itself it rather loses its initial grip.