9/5 Viewings.

David Mackenzie's Young Adam was fairly bashed when it came out a few years ago. Im at a lost to why, its a very intriguing and complex character study. Joe (Ewan Mcgregor) works on a small shipping boat with Les (the awesome Peter Mullan) and his wife Ella(Tilda Swinton) and their young son. One day Joe and Les find a nearly naked woman floating in the river and they drag her ashore. An intense well plotted sexual drama ensues. Mcgregor's character is a complicated sort of man that we slowly fill in the blanks about. The revealing bits of character are well spaced and fit nicely into the Hana-bi like structure of the film.Save for one misfire scene in my opinion it is a good bit of underrated film making.

4/5



Kinji Fukasaku's youth drama is a decent but in the end underwhelming. It features his trademark wildman editing and maniacally frenetic camera work. The plot follows a bunch of blue collar youth and their quest to buy a dump truck in order to "make it". There's fighting death and a rather wild sex montage. Beyond the wild style the film really never takes off.

2/5