Initially launched in 1980, Gregory’s Girl, Bill Forsyth’s BAFTA Award-winning coming-of-age romantic comedy is a treasured piece of Scottish cinema historical past.
It is a practical and embarrassingly acquainted portrait of teenage life in Scotland and the romantic tribulations of Gregory Underwood and his rag-bag assortment of college buddies.
It is now 43 years because the film launched the careers of John Gordon Sinclair and Clare Grogan and an entire host of others each in entrance and behind the digicam and it’s right here on the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) for a celebration of its restoration by the BFI with its forged.
The beloved movie, which launched the whole Scottish movie business has influenced Wes Anderson, Shane Meadows and is one in all Martin Scorsese’s favorite movies of all time. There could possibly be no larger reward.
An emotional night time for the forged, certainly Grogan confesses it’s solely the second time she has watched the movie from begin to finish, lots of the others couldn’t bear to look at themselves on display screen. The forged rightfully laud director Forsyth, his type and inspiring character and his skills as a genius movie maker, teaching excellent performances from these youngsters from Glasgow Youth Theatre.
Unlike earlier portrayals of life in Scotland, this can be a reflection of articulate, humorous, type, actual and typical teenagers of the time. It is intelligent, mild and completely irresistible even in spite of everything these years. It has really stood the take a look at of time. A cinematic gem.
