My Childhood
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - 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-brot...
Braveheart
by lezard • almost 12 years ago
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. You reach here the bare b...