Lynne Ramsay Jr.

Lynne Ramsay displays her photographer’s eye for striking compositions in this woozily sensorial Christmastime snapshot of a fractured family, an early expression of the complicated parent-child relationships that run throughout the director’s subsequent feature-length works.

Set during Scotland’s national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.