Review of Sweet Sixteen (2002) by Kevin G — 25 Mar 2010
Powerful, moving, emotive and captivating. There are some clear similarities between this film and Loach's 1969 masterpiece Kes, both feature boys who find some escape from their mundane and dead end lives only for it to be ripped from them, and this is truly hearbreaking.
Liam, passionatly performed by newcomer Martin Compston, is the perfect vessel for Loach and regular screenwriter Paul Laverty to comment upon the current state of Scottish (although relevent south of the border too) youth and the prospects a depressingly large number of them inevitably face.
This review of Sweet Sixteen (2002) was written by Kevin G on 25 Mar 2010.
Sweet Sixteen has generally received very positive reviews.
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