A story of two children who react with naive simple emotion to a situation imposed upon them by their father's secret.
Direction
Ramsay's debut: children shot like witnesses to a crime.
Acting
Non-professional kids who seem to actually understand the weight.
Director
Lynne Ramsay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Glasgow's working-class estates, Ramsay drew from her own childhood—her father really was a gasman with secrets.
The half-sister's gift scene: Ramsay said she wanted to capture 'the moment a child realizes their parent is a person, not a god'—and it's devastating.
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