16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
Country: GB/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Richard Jobson
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Jim Carter, Ewen Bremner
Synopsis:
An Edinburgh kid inherits his dad's boozing and violent swagger but is helped to forget the scarring experiences of his youth by the love of two women. His former gang members, however, are there to pull him back into the abyss.
Review:
Featuring an astounding central performance and some freewheeling storytelling techniques (pauses for song, subjective angles, jokeyness), the film resembles A Clockwork Orange, from which it tellingly quotes, both in tone and in character trajectory. This is, though, a far more humane and redeemable young man, and the aim is not futuristic nightmare or contemporary satire. Gripping, poetic filmmaking.
Country: GB/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Richard Jobson
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Jim Carter, Ewen Bremner
Synopsis:
An Edinburgh kid inherits his dad's boozing and violent swagger but is helped to forget the scarring experiences of his youth by the love of two women. His former gang members, however, are there to pull him back into the abyss.
Review:
Featuring an astounding central performance and some freewheeling storytelling techniques (pauses for song, subjective angles, jokeyness), the film resembles A Clockwork Orange, from which it tellingly quotes, both in tone and in character trajectory. This is, though, a far more humane and redeemable young man, and the aim is not futuristic nightmare or contemporary satire. Gripping, poetic filmmaking.
Country: GB/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Richard Jobson
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Jim Carter, Ewen Bremner
Synopsis:
An Edinburgh kid inherits his dad's boozing and violent swagger but is helped to forget the scarring experiences of his youth by the love of two women. His former gang members, however, are there to pull him back into the abyss.
Review:
Featuring an astounding central performance and some freewheeling storytelling techniques (pauses for song, subjective angles, jokeyness), the film resembles A Clockwork Orange, from which it tellingly quotes, both in tone and in character trajectory. This is, though, a far more humane and redeemable young man, and the aim is not futuristic nightmare or contemporary satire. Gripping, poetic filmmaking.