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My Way Home [VHS]

Stephen Archibald (Actor), Paul Kermack (Actor), Bill Douglas (Director) | Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over | Format: VHS Tape

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Actors: Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, William Carrol, Morag McNee
Directors: Bill Douglas
Language English
Classification: 15
Studio: Connoisseur
VHS Release Date: 24 Jan 2000

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B00004CM2U
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 20,865 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The staggering final part of Douglas's Trilogy, 10 Jan 2001

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This review is from: My Way Home [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Bill Douglas (1934-1991) only made four films in his career, the Childhood Trilogy, the last part of which is My Way Home, and Comrades, his epic recreation of the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. It was said of James Joyce that he was unique amongst novelists in that he produced nothing but masterpieces, and the same can be said of Bill Douglas.

The Childhood Trilogy is spare (indeed, it has even been termed calvinist), somewhat similar to Bresson, perhaps, but with an emotional intensity that has almost never been equalled in cinema. My Way Home portrays Douglas's alter-ego Jamie as he moves from borstal to casual employment and then homelessness. The second half of the film takes place in Egypt, following Jamie during his national service. Here salvation finally appears in the form of Robert, charming, educated, upper middle-class, everything, in fact, that the painfully monosyllabic Jamie is not. An unlikely friendship is born, and Robert is finally able to coax Jamie out of this shell.

This is not an easy film to watch, but it towers over almost every other British film before or since. The final ten minutes of the film are amongst the most uplifting in the history of cinema.

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