County Lines
Film of the month
FILM REVIEW: MANDEEP BACHU. ARTWORK: EMMA LAWTON. *LANSINOH AND MOTHERLY, 2019
Written and directed by Henry Blake
In cinemas
now
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS, this is the feature debut from writer-director Henry Blake. It explores drug traf cking from inner cities to rural areas, exploiting vulnerable children. Set in the heart of working-class east London, County Lines tells the story of Tyler (Conrad Khan), a seemingly lost and reclusive 14-year-old who faces bullying in education and poverty at home, where he lives with his mother and younger sister. It is this desperate recipe that makes Tyler a target and he becomes a drug mule for a local gangster.