Ratcatcher (1999)
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col /1.66:1 94m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart
Synopsis:
On a Glasgow estate strewn with the uncollected refuse of a 70s industrial dispute a boy inadvertently causes the death of a friend in the canal. His undiscovered guilt then festers along with his father's wayward alcoholism, his relationship with an older adolescent girl despised as the local bicycle, and another friend's affectless preoccupation with killing rats. Meanwhile he makes escape-filled sorties to a newly built estate to indulge his dream of a more spacious and salubrious home.
Review:
Modishly elliptical, confusingly narrated tale of teenage anomie which at times recalls Bill Douglas. There are some striking compositions of the far from promising surroundings, often shot in artily shallow focus, but the accents are often impenetrable and the conclusion depressingly foregone.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col /1.66:1 94m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart
Synopsis:
On a Glasgow estate strewn with the uncollected refuse of a 70s industrial dispute a boy inadvertently causes the death of a friend in the canal. His undiscovered guilt then festers along with his father's wayward alcoholism, his relationship with an older adolescent girl despised as the local bicycle, and another friend's affectless preoccupation with killing rats. Meanwhile he makes escape-filled sorties to a newly built estate to indulge his dream of a more spacious and salubrious home.
Review:
Modishly elliptical, confusingly narrated tale of teenage anomie which at times recalls Bill Douglas. There are some striking compositions of the far from promising surroundings, often shot in artily shallow focus, but the accents are often impenetrable and the conclusion depressingly foregone.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col /1.66:1 94m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart
Synopsis:
On a Glasgow estate strewn with the uncollected refuse of a 70s industrial dispute a boy inadvertently causes the death of a friend in the canal. His undiscovered guilt then festers along with his father's wayward alcoholism, his relationship with an older adolescent girl despised as the local bicycle, and another friend's affectless preoccupation with killing rats. Meanwhile he makes escape-filled sorties to a newly built estate to indulge his dream of a more spacious and salubrious home.
Review:
Modishly elliptical, confusingly narrated tale of teenage anomie which at times recalls Bill Douglas. There are some striking compositions of the far from promising surroundings, often shot in artily shallow focus, but the accents are often impenetrable and the conclusion depressingly foregone.