Ratcatcher (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 19, 2021
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Eadie | |
Performer: | Tommy Flanagan & Mandy Matthews | |
Directed by | Lynne Ramsay | |
Screenwriting by | Lynne Ramsay | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Director of Photography: | Alwin H. Küchler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Gritty yet beautiful coming-of-age film too dark for kids.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3.5/4 --
In any good film, the opening shot is telling, and Ratcatcher is a very good film.
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Globe and Mail
...The cast is packed with first-timers, who give wonderful, skinless performances...
Total Film
Ratcatcher goes straight to the head.
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Miami Herald
...A gorgeous blend of beauty and squalor, packed with imagery that will play over and over in your head for weeks....The most lovely debut in a long time.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
artful and astonishingly beautiful
Shadows on the Wall
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Ramsay's imaginative shot-making gifts make for a sublime result, creating a different sort of magical realism than we're used to seeing.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Lynne Ramsey's bleak, beautifully photographed debut unflinchingly portrays life in a Glasgow housing project during the 1973 garbageworkers strike as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old James Gillespie (William Eadie, in a soulful debut). As the film opens, James is playing with a friend near a filthy canal behind the projects when his friend tragically falls into the water and drowns. James chooses not to tell anyone that he saw the boy die, knowing that he will be implicated. This secret, along with his increasing lack of communication with his drunken football-loving father, causes James to become increasingly withdrawn, fantasizing about his family moving to a newly constructed apartment complex at the city limits on the edge of a beautiful, golden field of grain. As the garbage piles up and rats take up residency around the complex as if they were new tenants, James finds temporary solace in his friendships with Kenny, an odd boy who loves animals, and Margaret Anne, a teenage misfit who lets the local boys use her body as they wish.
While undeniably grim, RATCATCHER manages to combine unusually rich imagery and spare use of dialogue to create a realistic portrait of a simultaneously beautiful and cruel world. Punctuated with unexpected humor, Ramsey's film is subtle and rewarding.
While undeniably grim, RATCATCHER manages to combine unusually rich imagery and spare use of dialogue to create a realistic portrait of a simultaneously beautiful and cruel world. Punctuated with unexpected humor, Ramsey's film is subtle and rewarding.
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- UPC: 715515265010
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