FORMAT
DCP
RUNTIME
1h 34m
RATING
NR
DIRECTOR
Lynne Ramsay
CAST
Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
SYNOPSIS
Q&A with filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Moderated by film critic Mark Olsen.
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’ and ‘Lynne Ramsay: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood.
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’ and ‘Lynne Ramsay: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood.
CAST
Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
SYNOPSIS
Q&A with filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Moderated by film critic Mark Olsen.
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’ and ‘Lynne Ramsay: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood.
‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair – Year 3’ and ‘Lynne Ramsay: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
Writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s bracing feature debut offers a look at growing up in squalor in Scotland in the 1970s. Set during a garbage strike, RATCATCHER follows James Gillespie (William Eadie), a 12-year-old boy living in one of Glasgow’s poorer slums, where local gangs and an isolated canal are constant perils. Superbly shot and featuring a mostly nonprofessional cast, this raw, yet poetic drama peppers its bleak social realism with occasional humor to create a soul-crushing portrait of childhood.
