A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)

Highly Recommended

UK/Canada/USA

Feature Film

Director: Shane Meadows

Writers: Paul Fraser, Shane Meadows

Cinematographer: Ashley Rowe

Composer: Nick Hemming

Cast: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine, Frank Harper, Julia Ford, James Higgins, Vicky McClure, Ladene Hall, Bob Hoskins

A 25-year-old man, whose behaviour at first seems merely eccentric, but becomes increasingly violent, befriends and comes between a pair of 12-year-old friends, just when health and family problems ensure that they are at most in need of each other’s support, in Meadows’s alternately affecting and harrowing bitter-sweet gem. Iain.Stott