Postcards from London *** (2018, Harris Dickinson, Richard Durden, Jonah Hauer-King, Alessandro Cimadamore) – Classic Movie Review 12,776

Harris Dickinson stars as English teenager Jim, in Steve McLean’s arty, provocative, stylish and sexy 2018 LGBTQ film Postcards from London, following a young man’s rather unusual journey in escort work.

Harris Dickinson stars as English teenager Jim, in writer-director Steve McLean’s arty, provocative, stylish and sexy 2018 LGBTQ film Postcards from London, following a young man’s rather unusual journey in escort work in a highly imaginative vision of London’s Soho.

Harris Dickinson plays late teenage lad Jim, who escapes his rural Essex small town for London and becomes involved with a team of high-class gay escorts in Soho: David (Jonah Hauer-King), Jesus (Alessandro Cimadamore), Marcello (Leonardo Salerni) and Victor (Raphael Desprez). An artist named Max (Richard Durden) wants Jim to be his muse and revive his art career (‘I’m not a rent boy, I’m a muse’, says Jim).

Steve McLean’s previous film is Post Cards from America (1994), making Postcards from London his first film in 14 years. He also made several music videos for Jimmy Somerville, including Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) (1990).

The cast are Harris Dickinson as Jim, Richard Durden as Max, Jonah Hauer-King as David, Alessandro Cimadmore as Jesus, Leonardo Salerni as Marcello, Raphael Desprez as Victor, Silas Carson as George, Leemore Marrett Jr as Paul, Stephen Boxer as Stuart, Trevor Cooper as Tony, and Ben Cura as Caravaggio.

Harris Dickinson (born 24 June 1996) had his first starring role in the drama film Beach Rats (2017). He followed Postcards from London with County Lines (2019).

Dickinson then starred in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), The King’s Man (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), and The Iron Claw (2023).

Postcards from London is directed by Steve McLean, runs 88 minutes, is made by Diablo Films, is distributed by Peccadillo Pictures, is written by Steve McLean, is produced by Soledad Gatti-Pascual, is shot by Annika Summerson, and is scored by Julian Bayliss.

It premiered at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival on 17 March 2018, then in the UK on March 31, 2018 at the BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, and was released on 17 August 2018 in the UK and on November 9, 2018 in the US.

Postcards from London Steve McLean’s follow-up to his 1994 New Queer Cinema film Post Cards from America [Postcards from America], based on the memoirs Close to the Knives (1991) and Memories That Smell Like Gasoline (1992) by American artist David Wojnarowicz.

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