Sunday, 15 December 2019

Ratcatcher (1999 Lynne Ramsay & scr)

Lynne's gritty yet impressive, intimate debut, grimy goings on in Glasgow alternate with flashes of lyricism (and a fantasy sequence involving a mouse's balloon journey to the moon). Did he kill himself, or end up moving to the new house by the field? I rather think the former.

William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews.

The moment where Tommy gets knifed (off camera) is horribly well done - just the comb (blade) coming out of the back pocket - reminds me of something in early Polanski.

Photographed by Alwin Kuchler.

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