If you wanted to mock 'Hallam Foe', it would be easy. There's the over-enunciated Edinburgh accents, for a start; the spider-man like abilities of the film's eponymous hero; the hackneyed device of a beautiful, sexually aware but troubled woman; the slightly unsatisfactory plot resolution; and the use of soft, folky music to provide a generic mood of wistful depression. But see it not as realism, but rather as a modern day folk tale, and its equally easy to like the movie, with its slightly fanciful vision of Edinburgh, and a slightly more fanciful vision of a fey but horny teenager let loose in the adult world. And there's a final bonus for anyone who remembers 'Tutti Frutti', in a decent role for (the highly underrated) Maurice Roeves.
Review of Hallam Foe
