More of a producer, normally, though he also wrote and directed Eddie Marsan Still Life. This, the third in a triple bill of films today about characters with children who are in some way conflicted about them, is the most touching, as dying dad James Norton has to determine what's to happen to his little boy when he's gone - it faces him with agonising choices. His occupation as window cleaner is a nice device as it lets him see into other lives. And the young social worker assigned to him would seem to share his concerns about the unsuitability of most of the foster parents they visit.
Norton and four-year-old Daniel Lamont are wonderful together, and are often in long takes. It made Norton seriously think about having kids. With Eileen O'Higgins (Misbehaviour, Brooklyn), Niamh McGrady, Siobhan McSweeney, Stella McCusker.
Pasolini based it on a newspaper article he'd read.
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