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Writer:
Lynne Ramsay (writer)
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination more
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I like it, but I'm like that more (7 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Lynne Ramsay Jr. | ... | Lynne | |
| Martin Anderson | ... | Steven | |
| James Ramsay | ... | Da | |
| Denise Flannagan | ... | Ma | |
| Jackie Quinn | ... | Woman | |
| Lisa Taylor | ... | Girl | |
| Robert McEwan | ... | Boy |
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Also Known As:
Isän salaisuus (Finland) [fi]
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15 min
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This short film is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD for Ratcatcher (1999). more
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Edited into Cinema16: British Short Films (2003) (V) more
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Gasman is a proper short film - little plot, none of it told explicitly, but a larger story going on around the camera. Like most of Lynne Ramsey's stuff (Ratcatcher being the best and most enjoyable example, because it isn't a short)it feels like and probably is 1970s/80s East-end Glasgow, the struggling classes and a fairly grim outlook, but you see the little sparks of interest in real lives, and being a small story told very much from a child's point of view, it's much more hopeful, interesting and happy than it could have been. The characters, so few, and so little seen in the short still have immense believability and completeness. Most people will find this dull, but if you're the kind of person who knows how to get hold of a copy, you're probably the type of person who'd enjoy it. Arty, but not impenetrable, simple but thought-provoking.