Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

British filmmaker Danny Boyle offers a darkly comic glimpse of life in Britain in this short feature (shot on digital video equipment) produced for the BBC. Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise concerns Tommy Rag (Timothy Spall), a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman whose passion for salesmanship ...more

After being allotted millions of dollars for the curiously ineffectual Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Beach, director Danny Boyle decided to cut the fat and shoot two featurettes for the BBC, both shot on inexpensive digital video and written by playwright Jim Cartwright. Of the two, Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise is the more strained effort, but for its first half at least, the film's hyper-real take on youthful ennui versus old-school capitalism is genuinely entertaining. Think of it as ...more