![]() Their mum is in jail and Liam's dream is to find enough money to buy a home for her when she comes out. ![]() He plays Liam, a 15-year-old scammer from a Greenock housing estate, who lives with his elder sister Chantelle (Annmarie Fulton) and her wee boy. In fact, Compston's performance dominates. ![]() Needless to say, they are utterly convincing. His lead actor is 17-year-old Martin Compston from the first team squad of Morton FC and Michelle Coulter - Martin's mother in the film - has worked in drug rehab for the past 10 years. He goes further in Sweet Sixteen and uses a predominately amateur cast. Now that the legendary Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski ( Dekalog, The Colours Trilogy) is dead, there are few exponents of the genre left, outside of Iran and China. Loach continues to follow in the Italian Neo Realist tradition ( Bicycle Thieves, Il Posto), which is beginning to look dated. The last time they were in Glasgow was for My Name Is Joe, with Peter Mullan, who won Best Actor at Cannes. Neither do their subjects any favours.Īfter a trip to La-La Land for Bread And Roses, the team of director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty is back on home ground. ![]() For a movie as uncompromising as this, the title has a pop tag to it, like Gillies MacKinnon's Small Faces.
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