One of the best Irish movies from the 1970s. A 16-year old criminal returns to Dublin after a few years with the Christian Brothers. Lots of good street footage, jazz music (from Louis Stewart), a bad job interview, isolation, lousy parents, high-angled zoom shots, boredom, and chatty neighbours. Film depicts the tedium that inner city teenagers endure in the decade before heroin and video games! Far better than the crap our Film Board funds these days. There's even a dole office scene which features too often in contemporary Irish movies. Great seeing so many women wearing tight tops and short skirts! Similar to what Ken Loach was doing back then with weaker acting. It's a disgrace that this impressive movie gets continually ignored by books on Irish cinema.
Title: A week in the life of Martin Cluxton
Genre: Social realism
New/old: Old
Cinema/DVD: Online
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