If you despair of British films, are sick of petticoats, cravats and all that repression, fear not.
Help is at hand.
The creative team responsible for last year's Shallow Grave has now come up with the most exciting film about British youth since Quadrophenia . Based on Irvine Welsh's cult novel about heroin junkies in the Edinburgh underworld, Trainspotting is a fantastic ride and a bad trip rolled into one. And, with that, comes its own version of morality and betrayal. While the film in no way conveys the bleakness of Welsh's novel, what it does do well is capture the author's black and cynical sense of humour. When it kicks in, getting intimate with needles, a dead baby and toxoplasmosis, it hits hard.