George Barber

On the day he is to film his first comedy special, comedian George Harmon finds out that his ex-wife may be pregnant with his child.

What a married man will do to seduce his own wife.

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the hyper-reality of the media world, he joins Robert de Niro evening classes, but also falls under the pastoral influence of Johnny Morris. From the opening images of night-time, car-ridden streets accompanied by languorous sax on the soundtrack, through to the sub-Chandleresque voice-over narration, Taxi Driver II strikes you with its clever knowingness. But it's more than just a clever nod in the direction of contemporary film noir, just as it's more than an incestuous joke at the expense of the London based media world: it's a telling comment on the contemporary media culture of postmodernism.

Au petit matin, Ben Garner, un père de famille ordinaire en train de faire son footing dans la forêt, tombe sur le corps mort d'un petit garçon qui n'est autre que le fils de sa voisine. La police le suspecte immédiatemment d'être le meurtrier, d'autant qu'une preuve l'accable, tandis que les médias s'en mêlent, le rendant coupable aux yeux des habitants de son quartier. Il n'a alors pas d'autre choix que d'enquêter lui-même afin de retrouver le vrai tueur et de prouver ainsi son innocence...