Scotland w/d Lynne Ramsey
Her calling-card film packed a real punch at the time, still does and always will. Up close and personal examination of life in the Glasgow slums...their squalor exacerbated by a trash collectors strike.
In the opening scenes two boys wrestle in a filthy canal, one drowns and we follow the other as he tries to deal with his guilt in the face of constant reminders and a dysfunctional family. He dreams of moving to new housing as a cure for all his troubles but we know, and he doesn't, that wherever you go...there you are...
A fine update to the kitchen sink genre of the early 60's.
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