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My Childhood(1972)

  • Genre:
    • Drama
    • Biography
  • Director:
    • Bill Douglas

The second part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

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Written by lezard on 03.09.2014

The story? the title says it all: a moment of the author's childhood.
The dialogues? Hardly any.
The action? Mostly surviving.
The setting? Scotland
The result? Beyond words.

Either you feel it like a punch in your stomach or you don't and you look away, bored. Period.

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