Ratcatcher
Film details
| Film Title | Ratcatcher |
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| Genre | |
| Length | 94mins |
| Year | 1999 |
| Country | United Kingdom, France |
| Director | Lynne Ramsay |
| Actors | William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, Michelle Stewart, Lynne Ramsay Jr., Leanne Mullen, John Miller, Jackie Quinn, James Ramsay, Anne McLean, Craig Bonar, Andrew McKenna, Mick Maharg, James Montgomery, Thomas McTaggart |
| Showings |
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.
What is so striking and eerie about Ratcatcher is Ramsay’s brilliant way of rendering a trance-like, epiphanic child’s-eye-view of a hundred little things that present themselves to James’s senses.
★★★★
It’s an incredible, contained turn by Eadie, verbally inarticulate but full of depth in expression and gesture.
★★★★★
