British Cinema At It's Best

It's very rare that I can enjoy a film adapted from a book if I have read the book first.

However, this adaption of Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi's debut novel from 1954 left me breathless. Ewan McGregor plays Joe, a drifter working on a barge between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The film begins with the discovery of a young woman's body in the canal and leads into the sexual tensions growing between Joe and the couple he shares a barge with.

"Young Adam" is Britain's answer to "Requeim For A Dream" - haunting, bold and

unashamedly intelligent. The film makes as much use of body launguage as it does dialogue and the scenes between McGregor and Tilda Swinton are both sexy and intense.

People looking for mainstream entertainment should look elsewhere, but anyone else would do very well to see this excellent film.