Ratcatcher
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Overview
The debut feature of Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar), Ratcatcher is a transcendent portrait of childhood in all its strange loneliness. Growing up amidst the roughness of a 1970s Glasgow housing estate, young James (William Eadie) is wracked with guilt following the death of his friend in a drowning accident. Avoiding his difficult home life James roams the streets and falls in with a gang of youths who torment the more vulnerable residents, including a sensitive young girl, while a garbage strike causes a plague of rats to descend.
Audience Note: This film contains scenes of sexual abuse
Why You Should See This Film
A little marvel of a film, Ratcatcher achieves the rare feat of truly showing the world through the eyes of a child: moments of searing epiphany alongside the everyday, a growing awareness of one's own consciousness and agency and the terrible nearness of death. Bleak yet lyrical, it screened Un Certain Regard at Cannes and announced Ramsay as a major talent in social realist cinema.
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