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16 Years of Alcohol
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Film Description
An elegaic directorial debut from the versatile former lead singer of the Skids and Sky movie critic Jobson. Dedicated to the lost life of Jobson's brother, it's an impressive semi-autobiographical account of a turbulent adolescence stained by booze and violence. It's not without its faults but it's a fine start to a career and the woozy beginning is especially impressive.
Film Information
| Director | Richard Jobson | ||||
| Starring | Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Susan Lynch, Laura Fraser
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| Genre | Contemporary Film
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| Country | UK | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 2003 |
DVD Extras
Audio commentary; Deleted scenes; Behind the scenes footage; Theatrical trailer; Tartan trailer reel; Booklet with film notes.
Technical Details
| Certificate | 18 | Length | 96 mins | Label | TARTN | ||
| Cat No | TVD3505 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 0 | Aspect | Anamorphic Widescreen | ||||
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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 8th December 2004
From the woozy beginning that takes us out of a pub, down steps and through alleys, playing with the viewer’s perspective, you get the feeling you’re in good hands with this film. The film is an elegy – for lost youth, for a dead brother, for the impossibility of escape from who you are, but it’s also a story about hope, as the narration, which acts as a balm for even the most brutal scenes, reminds us more than once. The tone of the film may be one of melancholy, its journey circular instead of linear, but this is no way numbs the beauty to be found along the way in people, in music, in the light through a full glass, in the hope that people will allow you to change from the person you once were.
There’s a freshness in the film’s telling that keeps us involved. Scenes are impeccably composed but not in a way that kills them stone dead as too often happens, and the roaming, panning camera allows us into the world of the characters. It’s not without its faults – the narration flirts with cliché and sometimes the filmmaking becomes self-conscious, tries too hard to impress and falls a bit flat. Scenes of happiness look suspiciously like a coffee commercial too, though maybe this is appropriate to the fatalistic atmosphere of the film that knows nothing really lasts.
It’s nice to see Jobson’s humour at work in the film though. When the skinheads enter a record shop with words to the effect of ‘What is this crap? Get it off!’, the song in question is from The Skids, the band that Jobson fronted around the same time the scene is set. Jobson has reinvented himself. The tragedy of the film is that sometimes those who do wish to change are dragged under by those that can’t.
The standard line on 16 Years of Alcohol is that, notwithstanding a few slack areas, it’s a very fine, even exciting directorial debut and certainly one to be proud of. That seems just about right.
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