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Kurosawa's 2001 horror. The film which pre—dated The Grudge and Dark Water is a forgotten footnote to the Asia Extreme explosion In horror terms. Pulse has undeniath dated but it is Still well worth checking out if only as a template for a Successful. scary, creepy urban ghost stOry. The film Wt“ also be available on DVD from Mon 27 March (Optimum ASIai. Cameo. Edinburgh (Sat 4 and Sun 5 Mar only).
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PAV El LACKEEN (15) 88min 0...
An impressive directorial debut from British photographer Perry Ogden, Pavee Lackeen offers an intimate and unsentimental portrait of Ireland's much maligned traveller community. In a series of loosely connected episodes, the film concentrates on 12-year-old Winnie Maughan, who lives with her alcoholic, illiterate mother Rose and her many siblings in a Dublin roadside trailer that lacks running water. Suspended from school for fighting, Winnie spends her days wandering the city‘s streets, while the authorities plan to forciny move the family to an even worse site.
Back in the late 19905 Ogden documented the passion of Dublin's traveller
()ii .i Ji >l.‘l.'lf:. a: it xx, i\l'li:'l' it children for horses in his acclaimed photographic book Pony Kids. He sold her Waiting to Exha/e card With a ‘ \. . . . . . . in, :i .at'u -i “it. n [in w ,i- ii i i'ui the rights for that proiect to Touchstone Pictures, and deCideo to use the likeable drama aDOut a shy woman . . . . . ‘ . . .lamim (,giar i. t .ia. i: .ii ." money to make his own drama which, in his words, would dig deeper into who is diagnosed With a terminal . . . . . . . , thi: i>..iiit.itii ;r‘ .U.‘."‘ pt Mani 2» "1d,. the lives of kids from the margins in the wake of the Celtic Tiger boom. illness and deCides to spend her . . . . . .'.i‘t1lfffil.t‘.i'l, f'. ntiii in :ini; Shot on hand-held digital Video cameras, and usmg a mainly non- remaining weeks on a European y . . . imi ii. :llii :l‘itf'x i. lawn; .1 fax. .f:' it”) profeSSional cast, the freely imprOVised Pavee Lackeen artfully blurs the vacation. Director Wayne Smoke . . . . . . new ‘i""i-_:ii f"‘.i’r tiifl‘li’iith tr 'ii tiw- boundaries between documentary and fiction in the tradition of the late Alan Wayne and writers Jeffrey Price . . . Tilit‘JII» (tilt! i’l‘l )ii1ll‘iirl“. ’ti:r' i i .’,t . Clarke and the Dardenne Brothers. According to the director, we wanted to and Peter Seaman keep things ., . . . . . . \. .‘iti‘ ths inninsi: \mn limi tat mm aV0id the three-act structure, which is what they teach you in screenwriting bubbly. off centre and entertaining. ‘ . . , . . ‘ iii ith tn...- ilit. !f.:‘.i': issue a. an i: a! it} classes, like a plague. We didn t want to make a triumph in the face of One for the ladies perhaps. LL , , . . , . . Af'tfj'lifiitlt T(}lt:iiil‘. litilftit", .iiti;i~.i;riiit l‘ adverSity drama, and we didn t want it to be 3 Violent clash between settled Cool J. Timothy Hutton and ’ , Iii:;;,iii;:i t)‘, the ".()'.<)li<itit‘~ l wt. i‘ T' ii",t‘ people and travellers. Gerard Depardieu also star. . , , . . . . . . . . . . I risfaiiii (i K), Diihiiiii llit' /\.i‘".. .v‘ Eschewmg manipulative mu5ic, SWift cutting. and traditional establishing Genera/ release (from Fri 3 Mari. , , . . . . . , . . liioi is <:i'tii;.ii ') (til mm A. .i: shots, Ogden skilfully uses long takes, which give the impreSSion that we re The“? FOOI'Sh "mgs (15) ti‘.)l‘lIllt>tlIi"it] ti. An -i:iii;a s. 'tt' 1 ft!‘. dropping in on a series of everyday moments from the marginalised Winnie’s 105mm . U'Wfom‘ndmy "0‘ ()i «i )i'i'ifrl‘ili ,tiiaix T.!fl‘.ll‘.{i‘i\i :n, life. By refusung to turn her into a stereotypical Victim, the filmmaker affirms tThe super? 1990 Bertrand bi > ki: t (rt: has .i;i;.ix Jittfililfli min: the girl‘s ingenwty and reSilience in the face of poverty and prejudice: this avem'er "m ""5 naubeamg rat :isii: mth siiih ~. :gi )Li" «t'lfi i fizl‘iii" we could eaSily have shared the same title as Abbas Kiarostami's And Life Goes thesp'an drama abom a young Bait Vfill [flirt f; tiiii illi’jh if» it. Line the On . . . (Tom Dawson) actresses attempts to follow "7 h“ shines as ‘iiitliti iiif. ti it Keir-(ilk. .(,;"e,"‘.'.f '(.'/1)<"“’i‘.'. .‘>."i;i:.‘. (7.x. .‘ . "f i" I i . ' ' i ,' i" Isadora Duncdnesque mothers Vietifgiriiim; tilltl llflfl'b. flaunt; nut 'ii;ir i' i' i i'a'.
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