Set in Glasgow during the mid-70s amid the city’s bin strikes, Ratcatcher is an unsentimental coming-of-age story of unlikely friendships, first loves, and working-class life through the eyes of twelve-year-old James.
Director Lynne Ramsay’s debut feature premiered at Cannes, while her follow-up features Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here continued to win her international acclaim.
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the film has been lovingly restored in 4k (a process overseen by Ramsay and her cinematographer), and will be re-released across UK cinemas.
Reclaim The Frame are supporting the re-release of this seminal film, and will be presenting the 6pm screening at the Showroom Cinema on Friday 12th April.
At this screening, the film will be introduced by Reclaim The Frame's Melanie Iredale, and Sheffield-based film and TV writer/director Debbie Howard. Brought up in a working class family, Debbie’s films - including Still Loved, and Safe - have earned her Best Screenplay and Best Director at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, a BIFA longlist and RTS nomination.
This screening on Friday 12th April will also be followed by Lynne Ramsay’s second film Morvern Callar as part of a Showroom Spotlight strand.
Reclaim The Frame is a charity dedicated to bringing ever greater audiences to films by people from marginalised genders to offer a wider perspective of the world.
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