Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900957076
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: March 29, 2004
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
David Mackenzie's Young Adam, based on Alexander Trocchi's existentialist novel, demonstrates that Ewan McGregor means what he says about using high-paying Hollywood roles to finance appearances in intelligent low-budget movies. As Joe, an aspiring 1950s writer whose alienated selfishness destroys everyone around him, he is quietly authoritative. Tilda Swinton and Emily Mortimer are hardly less good as the two women in his life, and Peter Mullen as Les, the older friend whom he betrays, is touching and macho in the same breath. Les's canal barge is as much of a character as any of the people--this is a film in which the characters' occupations matter. Similarly the 1950s period detail is stunning, as is the gloomy cinematography: the high relief shadows and occasional visual distortions give the film a real visual style of its own that works well with its literary subject matter.

On the DVD: Young Adam is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby 5.1 sound. Special features include an informative making-of featurette in which the cast members talk about their passionate commitment to the project, the theatrical trailer, an audio track of David Byrne's original score, and a sequence of Ewan McGregor narrative voice-overs that runs with stills on screen. --Roz Kaveney




Rating: - An intriguing film with excellent performances, but not too involving
How would she have done it, asks Les Gault after he and Joe Taylor fished a dead woman clothed only in a petticoat from the cold water next to the barge Joe works on. She'd take off her coat and her blouse and her dress, Joe says, "then shed her stockings and hold them out so that they blew in the breeze like pennants before she let them float off into the night. And she'd shiver and ask herself if she really wanted to go through with it. And she'd answer that question by kicking her clothes into ... Read More

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Rating: - Young Adam -not so dark!
A real quality film that works on several levels.
Other reviews led me to believe that this would be dark & depressing.
For me it was neither.
Certainly the gritty realism is there & it accurately reflects life for many in the West Central Scotland of the 1950's.

I see the main theme of the story being the struggles & loneliness of the 'bohemian' writer surviving & making the most of life & sex in the tough working class environment of life on a canal cargo barge.
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Rating: - It sure ain't Swallows and Amazons...
Ewan MacGregor unsmilingly shags his way along the Caledonia Ship Canal while the cameras linger on fat raindrops and the corpse of a young woman is pulled from the dock. This film's so gritty, you'll need a flannel bath afterwards.

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Rating: - Miss it and miss out
Forget who the actors are. This film is absorbing and haunting. Whilst it isn't very 'nice' or 'pleasant' it gets into your psyche and stays with you.

There are only a very few films which I have seen - other than funny light comedies - which have made such a long-term impact upon me. Yet this film is not one of the main actor's 'famous' titles. It puts me in the mind of some of those sixties/seventies films and has a really close in feel which means you are compelled to continue watching ... Read More

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Rating: - Soot, grime and loads of class
A very classy depiction of the grime, soot and muck of life on a coal barge named Atlante, as an homage to Jean Vigo's masterpiece about a barge in the French canals.

The very un-Hollywoodish Ewan McGregor plays a young and randy hired hand who screws all his bosses' wives, and couldn't care less. The amount of sex he has in this film is staggering, very loud and uncouth, but it has passion and feels real. At times it seems like the sex will take over from other worthy themes, but ultimately ... Read More

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