Dirty Filthy Love (2004)

If mental illness cannot be used for comic relief, then what good is it? The compromised and conflicted hero of Dirty Filthy Love (2004) has not been the luckiest sod in either the genetic or the cosmic lotteries. His wife has had enough of his unwieldy baggage, which includes both obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette’s syndrome. How’s a fella supposed to scare up a new love when he can’t help but bark and swear frightfully at every fresh person he meets? Produced for broadcast over British television and adapted from a play co-written by a Tourette’s partisan, Dirty Filthy Love raises sublime tragedy to laughable heights and does its fucking shit damnedest to elevate the cocksucking cunt audience along with it.