Alan Cooke, Emily Mortimer, Ewan McGregor
The corpse of a young woman is found floating in a canal by a drifter working on a barge traveling between Glasgow and Edinburgh. His relationship with the dead woman gradually unfolds as claustrophob...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
Stats: 381 reviews
I was disanointed by this film to be honest. It started out as an intriguing thriller but soon just turned into a disturbing sex film. Peter Mullan is a great actor and his talents are wasted in this film and the custard sex scene was just wrong!
"And then with her petticoat billowing around her she'd drop into the water like a rose, float there for a moment, and be gone."...( read more)
Fondamentalmente è un film inutile e strano, ma per uno strano e disturbante motivo mi "piace".
Hate this kind of conceited art-house movies. It's just merely a depressing and trashy story about a stupid bastard.
Young Adam is not a film of who did it, concerning Cathy's death. The story focuses on Joe, his view on life, his usual actions, and how he uses sex as a weapon while running from himself. After watching this film, you may actually feel bad for him, despite his wrongdoing through...( read more)
Deep from gritty Scotland comes this diamond in the rough, whose sharpe edges work for and not against the film. The film is a diamond because of the interesting narrative perspective which follows two temporal strings at once and the stellar cast of British veterans Ewan McGrego...( read more)
Young Adam unfolds with an absolute minimum of dramatic highs and lows, and it's so disaffected that it prompts laughter at the wrong moments. full review
The adultery and murder that follow when McGregor signs on to work for Swinton and her husband (Peter Mullan), on a barge navigating the waterways of Glasgow, elicit only stifled yawns. full review
The narrative scheme, the brooding period atmosphere, the understated score and the precision of the acting also make the story seem more interesting than it is. full review
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