Hector (2015)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 87m
Director: Jake Gavin
Cast: Peter Mullan, Keith Allen, Stephen Tompkinson, Gina McKee, Sarah Solemani
Synopsis:
A homeless man makes his annual trip from Glasgow to London for Christmas for what may be the last time.
Review:
Simple, understated drama, in which we discover gradually why our dogged hero is where he is, but the other characters never do know what we suspect about his state of health. Thus the film discreetly treads the line between empathizing with the homeless man's plight while revealing it for the solipsism it is. The wide screen format might seem at odds with a scaled back exercise in social realism but, allied to the halting figure and still voice of calm that is Mullan's portrayal, it has its rationale.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 87m
Director: Jake Gavin
Cast: Peter Mullan, Keith Allen, Stephen Tompkinson, Gina McKee, Sarah Solemani
Synopsis:
A homeless man makes his annual trip from Glasgow to London for Christmas for what may be the last time.
Review:
Simple, understated drama, in which we discover gradually why our dogged hero is where he is, but the other characters never do know what we suspect about his state of health. Thus the film discreetly treads the line between empathizing with the homeless man's plight while revealing it for the solipsism it is. The wide screen format might seem at odds with a scaled back exercise in social realism but, allied to the halting figure and still voice of calm that is Mullan's portrayal, it has its rationale.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 87m
Director: Jake Gavin
Cast: Peter Mullan, Keith Allen, Stephen Tompkinson, Gina McKee, Sarah Solemani
Synopsis:
A homeless man makes his annual trip from Glasgow to London for Christmas for what may be the last time.
Review:
Simple, understated drama, in which we discover gradually why our dogged hero is where he is, but the other characters never do know what we suspect about his state of health. Thus the film discreetly treads the line between empathizing with the homeless man's plight while revealing it for the solipsism it is. The wide screen format might seem at odds with a scaled back exercise in social realism but, allied to the halting figure and still voice of calm that is Mullan's portrayal, it has its rationale.