Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Country: GB/GER/SP
Technical: DeLuxe 106m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Martin Compston, William Ruane, Annmarie Fulton
Synopsis:
A Glasgow teenager looks forward to the day his mother gets out of prison and plans to surprise her by buying a caravan on the edge of the loch. To finance this, however, he first steals his stepfather's stash of drugs to deal, then finds himself in the employ of the local overlord.
Review:
Loach's typically committed portrait of the underclass, part of a Glasgow trilogy, shows a milieu of users exploited by dealers who are in turn manipulated by criminal gangs; meanwhile others seek to lead a decent life. By focusing on one of the latter who turns to the former for the best of motives initially, but ends up betraying his best friend and his family, he succeeds in adumbrating issues of great social moment while giving them a human face. Nevertheless, it is heavygoing material, with strong language eventually becoming wearing and the cultural chasm between most viewers of this film and the world it depicts embodied in the presence of subtitles throughout.
Country: GB/GER/SP
Technical: DeLuxe 106m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Martin Compston, William Ruane, Annmarie Fulton
Synopsis:
A Glasgow teenager looks forward to the day his mother gets out of prison and plans to surprise her by buying a caravan on the edge of the loch. To finance this, however, he first steals his stepfather's stash of drugs to deal, then finds himself in the employ of the local overlord.
Review:
Loach's typically committed portrait of the underclass, part of a Glasgow trilogy, shows a milieu of users exploited by dealers who are in turn manipulated by criminal gangs; meanwhile others seek to lead a decent life. By focusing on one of the latter who turns to the former for the best of motives initially, but ends up betraying his best friend and his family, he succeeds in adumbrating issues of great social moment while giving them a human face. Nevertheless, it is heavygoing material, with strong language eventually becoming wearing and the cultural chasm between most viewers of this film and the world it depicts embodied in the presence of subtitles throughout.
Country: GB/GER/SP
Technical: DeLuxe 106m
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Martin Compston, William Ruane, Annmarie Fulton
Synopsis:
A Glasgow teenager looks forward to the day his mother gets out of prison and plans to surprise her by buying a caravan on the edge of the loch. To finance this, however, he first steals his stepfather's stash of drugs to deal, then finds himself in the employ of the local overlord.
Review:
Loach's typically committed portrait of the underclass, part of a Glasgow trilogy, shows a milieu of users exploited by dealers who are in turn manipulated by criminal gangs; meanwhile others seek to lead a decent life. By focusing on one of the latter who turns to the former for the best of motives initially, but ends up betraying his best friend and his family, he succeeds in adumbrating issues of great social moment while giving them a human face. Nevertheless, it is heavygoing material, with strong language eventually becoming wearing and the cultural chasm between most viewers of this film and the world it depicts embodied in the presence of subtitles throughout.