Beautiful Boy (2018 Felix Van Groeningen & co-scr)

Screenplay based on books by the real father and son, played here by Steve Carrell and Timothée Chalamet, about a meth addict. Over two hours, it ends up really by saying that parents can't fix / save drug-addicted children - they have to help themselves. 

It's not too downbeat, somehow. The kid's good. Also featured: Maura Tierney, Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart, Unbelievable), Timothy Hutton, Amy Ryan.

It's worth noting that the two most interesting things in the film - the use of Gorecki to play over the last ten minutes, and the Bukowski quote that runs over the credits - are both things that are put on the film rather than come from it.

Interesting soundtrack, overall, includes beautiful, haunting Perry Como number 'Sunrise, Sunset' written by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Nirvana, Bowie, John Coltrane, Neil Young.

Photographed by Ruben Impens. Co-written by Luke Davies (the new Catch-22, Lion).