Fictional portrait of Scottish ex-heroin-addict but this time without film clichés.
Glasgow, 1996. Time to kill, money to find, prison time to serve, and the ever-present drugs which remain a solution and a threat. –IFFR
Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is an award-winning Scottish film director, best known for the feature films Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.
Ramsay won the 1996 Cannes Prix de Jury for her graduation film, the short “Small Deaths”. Her second short film, “Kill the Day”, won the Clemont Ferrand Prix du Jury; her third, “Gasman”, won her another Cannes Prix du Jury in addition to a Scottish BAFTA for Best Short Film.
Ratcatcher (1999), Ramsay’s debut feature, won critical acclaim and numerous awards. It was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival, winning her the Guardian New Directors prize. She also won the Carl Foreman Award for Newcomer in British Film at the 2000 BAFTA Awards, the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival and the Silver Hugo for Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Morvern Callar (2002) won Samantha Morton the British Independent… read more
James Ramsay plays a drug addict who gets arrested and sobers up in jail while we relive various scenes from his life. Very little dialogue and the chronology was at times hard to follow.
I'd be curious to know if Steve McQueen saw this film, because there are some striking similarities in some of the shots.
