The Bill Douglas Trilogy : My Childhood
by Bill Douglas0h461972United Kingdom
Recommended byLynne Ramsay, Nicolas Philibert, Luc Dardenne, Radu Jude, Philippe Garrel
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The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
Credits
- Production Compagny : The British Film Institute (BFI)
- Distributor : Unified Film Organization (UFO)
- Director : Bill Douglas
- Scenario : Bill Douglas
- Photo Director : Mick Campbell
- Sound Recorder : Bob Withey
- Editing : Brand Thumim
- Producer : Geoffrey Evans
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1972
- French release date : 18 juin 1997
- Category : Short film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : English
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Nicolas Philibert
about The Bill Douglas Trilogy : My Childhood
of Bill DouglasI have not forgotten the ghostly and coal-like black-and-white, the fixed camera shots, the bare interiors that tell of coldness and solitude.
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