FRIDAY -- Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher

Tomorrow at the Silent Movie Theater the Cinefamily will be screening Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay's little-seen first film (which is not to say that her second film exactly tore up the box office either). The last film in Cinefamily's "Female Gaze" series is also its best. Ramsay has an uncanny eye for detail; it plays more like a series of compelling still-photos than a traditional narrative.

Quoth the Cinefamily website: "Ratcatcher is a grim coming-of-age tale set in working-class Glasgow during a sanitation strike, but director Lynne Ramsey's imaginative flights of fantasy and masterful filmmaking seem to help her characters transcend the world of garbage and grime they inhabit. She selects her details with the taste of a great short-story teller, just a couple at a time; each image and sound is beautiful in some way, rich with potency. Ratcatcher ... represents the best of a trend towards a modern poetic realism -- films trying for hyper-realism in location and characters, but seeking to create a strange, mysterious quality, rather than just a gritty documentary world."


WHERE: The Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax
WHEN: Friday, August 29, 2008 @ 7:30pm
COST: $10
MORE INFO: The Cinefamily Website
Or you could just buy it on Criterion DVD