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Bookmark this pageRatcatcher (1999)
Director: Lynne Ramsay
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From Time Out Film Guide
Set in and around a Glasgow tenement block during a dustman's strike in the mid-'70s, Ramsay's astonishingly assured feature debut centres on a 12-year-old (Eadie, excellent) who, haunted by the (secret) role he played in a pal's accidental death by drowning, gradually retreats into a private world of solitude, strange friendships and consoling dreams of a new home for his family. That's about it, story-wise, but Ramsay's bold visual sense, droll wit and tender but unsentimental take on the various characters and their relationships makes for a distinctly poetic brand of gritty realism, and one of the most impressive first features by a British director in some years.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Producer: Gavin Emerson
Cast: William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, Leanne Mullen, John Miller full cast
Duration: 94 mins
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