My Ain Folk (1973)

Review: My Ain Folk (1973)

Director: Bill Douglas

Cast: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna, Mr. Munro,

Stephen Archibald
Stephen Archibald
Hughie Restorick
Hughie Restorick
Jean Taylor Smith
Jean Taylor Smith
Bernard McKenna
Bernard McKenna
Mr. Munro
Mr. Munro

Plot: When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.

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The subjectivity of watching: Bertrand Tavernier&#8217;s <i>Death Watch</i> (1980)

The subjectivity of watching: Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch (1980)

Sometimes sharing a favourite movie doesn’t produce the reaction we expect; it can be puzzling, even a little painful to discover that a friend doesn’t always like the same things we […]

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