UK / France,
1999, 94 min
Directed by:
Lynne RamsayScreenplay:
Lynne RamsayCinematography:
Alwin H. KuchlerComposer:
Rachel PortmanPlots(1)
Set in a Glasgow tenement block in the 1970s, against a backdrop of rubbish accumulating during a dustbinmen’s strike, the film follows the twelve year old James Gillespie (William Eadie) as tragedy causes him to withdraw from his family. He is drawn to the fetid canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne (Leanne Mullen), a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny (John Miller), who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings. (Independent Cinema Office)
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