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Ben O'Shea: Glenrothan Review · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: The flick with bedow shade, good Morning, good morning. The
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  Speaker 1: only way we could get more Scottish than the Proclaimers
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  Speaker 1: if I brought in a hagis for breakfast, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do that. Have you ever had hagas? No? I haven't,
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  Speaker 1: but I risk the concept of hagas is heinous. The
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  Speaker 1: taste actually pretty good, like savory sawdust described it's sort
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  Speaker 1: of like a savory mince, but it's a very sort
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  Speaker 1: of flowery, grainy because it's got so much like of
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  Speaker 1: a ot or something that you're really selling. And you
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  Speaker 1: look anything stuffed into a sheep's in testinals, it's stomach,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. From there, let's go to Glenn rothen.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the directorial debut, the very first feature
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  Speaker 1: film directed by Succession star Brian Cox, who is a legend.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around for so long as Logan Roy in Succession,
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  Speaker 1: everybody loved him. It was just the most incredible perform
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  Speaker 1: and now at eighty years old, he's directed his first film.
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  Speaker 1: It's never too old to try something new. Absolutely bad.
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  Speaker 1: Probably wasn't worth the way, oh no, which is a shame.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm going to break your heart
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  Speaker 1: on this least because you've got Brian Cox and you've
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  Speaker 1: got the great Alan Cumming as well, so two of
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  Speaker 1: Scotland's greatest actors together and everything about this film on
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  Speaker 1: the surface sounds amazing. So it's a classic kind of
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  Speaker 1: UK feel good film, which they do so well. Like
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  Speaker 1: they honestly, you wouldn't think they can do a bad one.
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  Speaker 1: This film proves otherwise anyway. So if Brian Cox plays Sandy,
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  Speaker 1: this old bloke who is in charge of the family
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  Speaker 1: whiskey distillery in Glen Rothan, which is in the Scottish Highlands,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful countryside, lives by a lock, but he's sort of
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  Speaker 1: getting a bit unwell. He's got some health troubles and
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  Speaker 1: he's been looking after the distillery that's been in family
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  Speaker 1: hands for two hundred years. And he goes, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can keep doing this job
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  Speaker 1: on my own, I need to reach out to my
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  Speaker 1: estranged brother played by Alan Cumming, whose name is Donald.
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  Speaker 1: He's moved to America. He's been in America for forty
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  Speaker 1: years where he runs and performs at his own sort
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  Speaker 1: of jazz blues club in Chicago. And something obviously happened
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  Speaker 1: that made him leave Scotland forty years ago and never return,
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  Speaker 1: and so he writes Donald a letter and say, look, mate,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not feeling too good. I know where a bit
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  Speaker 1: of strange, but can you consider coming back and it'd
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  Speaker 1: be great to see you. Meanwhile, Donald's adult daughter and
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  Speaker 1: granddaughter they go back every year. So they've got this
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  Speaker 1: really nice, lovely relationship with Sandy and so they convince
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  Speaker 1: the dad to come back. Alan coming comes back to Scotland,
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  Speaker 1: and the movie is about figuring out what was the
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  Speaker 1: original incident that made him leave, that drove these two
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  Speaker 1: brothers apart. You get the feeling through flashbacks it's something
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  Speaker 1: to do with the dad, who was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: an ahole, let's be honest. And Donald had really close,
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  Speaker 1: really close relationship with his with his mum who maybe
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  Speaker 1: molly coddled him a little bit. And the dad was
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  Speaker 1: very tough, sort of that kind of classic, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of tough Scottish dude who sort of doesn't to
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  Speaker 1: tolerate fools. And so both Sandy and Donald have to
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  Speaker 1: learn something about each other, learn something about themselves, figure
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  Speaker 1: out if they have any common ground, if they're going
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  Speaker 1: to save the whiskey distillery, which is the heartbeat of
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  Speaker 1: this township. So everything is going, you know what, this
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  Speaker 1: could be really great, but it's just you know, like
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  Speaker 1: so where where Brian Cox in Logan Roy was this
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  Speaker 1: edgy satire. Glenn Rothan has about as much edge as
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  Speaker 1: a nerf ball is. It is the tamest lamest dialogue
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. It's a sort of movie where someone goes,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Narren, why did you come back here? And that
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  Speaker 1: is Donald Nan saying that to himself out loud, just
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  Speaker 1: like people do all the time. They always say their
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  Speaker 1: full names when they're talking to themselves out loud by themselves.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it just is just the lamest script. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a shame because it and Shirley Henderson from
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  Speaker 1: the original Train Spotting and or whatever it was in
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  Speaker 1: the Harry Potter movie, she is great. As I said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: it's out just in time for school holidays. So really
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  Speaker 1: what it could be is if the kids play up
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  Speaker 1: at home. I'm taking it funny. You should say that
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  Speaker 1: because I watched a bit of it with my fourteen
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  Speaker 1: year old daughter, and although she was on her phone
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  Speaker 1: for most of it, and she she looked up at
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  Speaker 1: one point and she just she just looked at me.
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  Speaker 1: She just looked at me. She's like, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: So definitely the kids threaten them with Glenn Rolf. How
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  Speaker 1: many whiskey shots whisky you need to have more than
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  Speaker 1: we drama whiskey and DRAMs. How many military tattoos. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give it one star for each of Brian
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  Speaker 1: Cox and Alan Comming. Wow. Man. Rather I'd rather eat
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  Speaker 1: the hag. I was hoping for something. I was sad
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  Speaker 1: to say, I wake till it comes out on videos.
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  Speaker 1: Directing is terrible as well. It's quite a wrap. I
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  Speaker 1: think we'll wrap it now