Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has a thing for misery. Her memorable 1999 feature-length debut, Ratcatcher,
is set amid a Glasgow tenement block in 1973 and follows a 12-year-old
boy who, after his friend’s accidental drowning, increasingly retreats
into his own solitary world, a place where he befriends an abused girl
and spends time in a half-built housing project adjacent to a sprawling
wheat field.
