‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, the poetic realism of Bill Douglas . . . the city’s very different faces have long inspired filmmakers
This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Edinburgh Choose Life. Choose starting this piece with a quote from the famous opening scene of Trainspotting, in which Ewan McGregor fled through Edinburgh after being caught shoplifting. The sequence became an instant classic. Some traditional corners of the Scottish capital might have also considered that a mixed blessing. A generation of film lovers would now smile fondly every time they thought of Princes Street.
First, he made it an animation; next, he changed the setting from Prague to 1950s Edinburgh. The city was instantly familiar even at half a century’s distance, grand department stores and dusty theatres overlooked by Edinburgh Castle, the genteel and elemental side by side. As with so many grand affairs, Chomet and Edinburgh would eventually part. Some years later, he moved to Provence. But the film remains an ardent billet-doux.
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