Orphans (1998)
- Directed by
- Peter Mullan
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 40 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Four adult siblings gather for their mother's wake in a working-class Glasgow suburb. Over the course of one night each of them confronts a personal crisis, revealing the family's buried resentments and grief.
darkly comicmelancholicgrittycharacter-drivenemotionalrawslow-burnwry
What happens
Orphans is a 1998 Scottish black comedy film written and directed by Peter Mullan and starring Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis and Rosemarie Stevenson. This was the first full-length film directed by Mullan, who later won a Best Actor award at Cannes for My Name is Joe, and who went on to direct The Magdalene Sisters and Neds. He has said that the film is not autobiographical, but that he wrote the film shortly after the death of his mother, and that each of the four main characters represent an element of what he was feeling at the time. The film was funded by Channel 4 Films, the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund, and the Glasgow Film Fund. The soundtrack includes music by Craig Armstrong, and Billy Connolly singing Mairi's Wedding and two songs he wrote for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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