of all time.
Two young brothers whose father largely is absent and uncaring are left with a grandmother. She has a special ferocity for one of the boys, thinking he wasn't fathered by her son.
There never has been made a more haunting film; it is done with a unique style, very much like a documentary, and makes any viewer detachment difficult, if not impossible.
If Dickens had lived in the twentieth century, and been a filmmaker, this is what his work would look like.
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Topic - The Bill Douglas Trilogy: a perennial top-10 in lists of greatest British films - tinear 16:07:56 04/26/14 (0)