The other great Scottish film of the year!"Trainspotters, try this exuberant, sweetly feverish coming-of-age story. What a stunning performance from young Iain Robertson!" -- Village Voice.
"Vibrant... Grippingly intense! A wonder of a film! -- The New Yorker.
Garnering rave reviews everywhere (four-and-a-half stars from the New York Post, Boston Herald, Newark Star-Ledger and many others) Gillies MacKinnon's (The Playboys) latest has been heralded along with Trainspotting as evidence of a Scottish film renaissance. MacKinnon and his brother, co-writer Billy MacKinnon, return to the working-class Glasgow of their youth in this powerful evocation of childhood. It is 1968, and 13 year-old self-styled "genius" Lex lives with his widowed mother and two brothers. Lex is torn between the lifestyles of his older brothers: Alan, 17, a skilled painter who longs to escape to art school, and Bobby, 18, who runs with a local gang known as the Glen. All three fall for Joanna, an uncommonly self-assured lass who has attracted the jealous attentions of various local gang members. A prank gone awry sparks a series of retaliations which quickly turn nasty and draw all three brothers into a violent gang war. "The overall integrity, permeating every detail, ensures that the film, as an exploration of the fine line that separates innocence from experience, is not only funny and engrossing but, in the end, very moving. A small but immaculately turned gem." -- Geoff Andrew, Time Out.
(Great Britain, 1996, 102 min.)
Classification: TBA
7:15 & 9:30 Fri Dec 6-Thur Dec 12
Please note that this is a premiere.
