Sweet Sixteen

Sweet Sixteen is a British film carried out by Ken Loach left in 2002.

Synopsis

In the small town of Greenock in Scotland, Liam dreams of the family that it forever have. Between his father-in-law, dealer, who thinks only of his small traffics, and his mother drug addict, in prison, it is encircled.

Does his/her mother have to leave prison for her 16 years and he promises himself to make it happy, by offering to him this caravan located in a sublime decoration, but how to find the money?

Already, not very front, combine them his/her buddies brought heaps of problems, and Liam feels in extreme cases, it should leave, leave this patelin, his/her buddies and their traffics but it does not arrive there…

Data sheet

Realizer: Ken Loach
Producing: Rebecca O' Brien
Scenario: Paul Laverty
Photo Dir: Barry Ackroyd
Music: George Peg wood
Sound: Ray Beckett
Lasted: 106 min

Distribution

Martin Compston: Liam
William Ruane: Pinball
Annmarie Fulton : Chantelle
Michelle Abercromby: Suzanne
Michelle Coulter: Jean
Gary McCormack: Stan

Distinctions

Price of the Scenario to the Cannes festival 2002

Comment

Sweet Sixteen is a tragedy. No softness here, not of happy end either.

As in the Greek tragedy, the plays are made from the start, but here not light, all occurs the night, in the shade, or at best in the greyness. When Liam dreams in front of Clyde, one sees a certain clearness with far, but where is the action, the sun is not shown. One is not here at Sophocle, these people are people of modest means and there is no hope to see them escaping their condition.

The hope, our hero is the only one to have some, the only one also (with his/her Chantelle sister) to be interested in the others, which returns it attaching in spite of its traffics and its crooked blows.

Why Ken Loach does he bait himself on his heroes? Is this its way of describing Great Britain post-Thatcher?

See too

Wink in Chuck Berry for " Sweet Little Sixteen"

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