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<font size="4"><br>Ratcatcher</font>
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<br>dvd review by Derek Hill</font>
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<p>Set in Glasgow during a long garbage strike in the mid-1970s, Lynne Ramsay's <i>Ratcatcher</i> focuses on a child named James as he tries to cope with the death of a friend who drowned in the canal that runs next to the tenements where they live. Guilt swells inside of young James because his friend died just moments after James left him alone in the polluted waters of the canal. Grief-stricken but unable to tell anyone about what happened down by the water, James wanders from incident to incident keeping the secret inside him where it ferments like a primal memory.
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