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Douglas's magnificent award-winning Trilogy is the product of an assured formidable artistic vision. These are some of the most compelling films about childhood ever made. Presented here in a High-Definition restoration the Trilogy follows Jamie (played with heart-breaking conviction by Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. This is cinematic poetry: Douglas contracted his subject matter to the barest essentials - dialogue is kept to a minimum and fields slag heaps and cobbled streets are shot in bleak monochrome. Yet with its unexpected humour and warmth the Trilogy brims with clear-eyed humanity and affection for an ultimately triumphant young boy.
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