HALLAM FOE

Runtime: 95 Min

I never thought that Yamakasi-like ability could really come in handy for a peeping tom. But Hallam Foe proves us that if a weird story abot voyeuristic teen that echoes in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window could run pararell with some romantic oedipal love story helped by his Yamakasi ability.

Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a 17 year old teen who is very paranoid. He thinks his step mother; Verity (Claire Forlani) has conspired to kill his mother. Meanwhile his father Julius Foe (Ciaran Hinds) cannot understand him at all.

Following the death of his mother, Hallam has retreated into his own semi-fantasy world by spying on people around him through a treehouse he built which also a secret shrine for her mother.

When his sister (Lucy Holt) leaves for Australia, Hallam feels isolated, and an “intimate” push-up with his step mother changes everything. Then Hallam set to Edinburgh for a new life, only to find that the sity is a perfetc nest for his voyeuristic orgasm and a once in a lifetime chance to meet Kate (Sophia Myles) who eerily, resembles his late mother. What comes next is a more voyeuristic oedipal quest of a 17 year old boy.

With tight editing, this is not a crowd pleaser but certainly gives us another example of Jamie Bell’s fine acting since Billy Elliot. The spoken English is a little bit difficult to comprehend since thick Scottish accent spreaded here and there.