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Ratcatcher:
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Much
of (Ratcatcher's) power comes from the dreamy authority of its
debutante writer-director Lynne Ramsay. Her influences are clear
- this could be "The 400 Blows" by way of Ken Loach...
(The New York Times)
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Ratcatcher
is full of images that are similarly immediate and allusive, their
poetry heightened by Ramsay's elliptical editing style...
(Amy Taubin, Village Voice)
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Her
characters are rich, her atmosphere is genuine, her problems
are mundane, perhaps, but not to the people who have them...
(John Anderson, Newsday)
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With
her supple combination of haunting visual poetry and dirty realism,
Lynne Ramsay may be the most gifted filmmaker to come out of
Britain since Mike Leigh...
(Elle Magazine)
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Set
in 1970s Glasgow during a strike by sanitation workers, the movie
shouldn't work. That it does is a mark of Ramsay's deeply lyrical,
sensual style...
(Gear)
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Ratcatcher's
seamless shifts from the squalid to the whimsical showcase a young
director in possession of an astonishingly varied craft...
(Andy
Bailey, IFC Rant)
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The
power of "Ratcatcher" comes from its hushed lyricism and Ms. Ramsay's
talent for conveying emotional complexity...
(Elvis
Mitchell,
The New York
Times)
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Ramsay's
first feature, Ratcatcher, beautifully captures both the agonizing
vulnerability and the escapist flights of an impoverished childhood...
(Dennis Lim, Village Voice)
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