Film about scrap metal dealing and the potential cash returns that it provides, sometimes illegally.
The central characters are school friends Arbor and Swifty. Arbor suffers from a form of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and ends up permanently excluded from school and into a life of poverty and scrounging scrap metal. This activity does provide some short term much needed money but ends up with critical circumstances as Swifty is electrocuted.
It is one of those films that evokes memories of so many others, be it works from Ken Loach like Kes and The Navigators to Hollywood films such as Ben-Hur and Warhorse!
Director Clio Barnard has furthered her links to Rita, Sue and Bob Too! with another socially surreal film set in the northern England city of Bradford.
The trouble with these films is they usually depict England (especially the north of the country) as a bleak, dark area. It isn't (not all the time).
Casting is pretty minimal with a young cast apart from the parents of Arbor and Swifty and the older scrap metal dealer Kitten. Some of these actors I recognised from other films of the genre and TV work.
Barnard just might carry on the mantle of legendary but ageing director Ken Loach.
The central characters are school friends Arbor and Swifty. Arbor suffers from a form of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and ends up permanently excluded from school and into a life of poverty and scrounging scrap metal. This activity does provide some short term much needed money but ends up with critical circumstances as Swifty is electrocuted.
It is one of those films that evokes memories of so many others, be it works from Ken Loach like Kes and The Navigators to Hollywood films such as Ben-Hur and Warhorse!
Director Clio Barnard has furthered her links to Rita, Sue and Bob Too! with another socially surreal film set in the northern England city of Bradford.
The trouble with these films is they usually depict England (especially the north of the country) as a bleak, dark area. It isn't (not all the time).
Casting is pretty minimal with a young cast apart from the parents of Arbor and Swifty and the older scrap metal dealer Kitten. Some of these actors I recognised from other films of the genre and TV work.
Barnard just might carry on the mantle of legendary but ageing director Ken Loach.