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Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh

1948 · 31 min

A gentle, quietly witty patchwork of city lives that drifts between strangers until their small paths quietly cross.

Directed by
John Eldridge
Genres
Drama
Overview
Waverley Steps - subtitled ‘a visit to Edinburgh’ - is an evocative minor classic. John Eldridge’s film takes the semi-documentary form of a collage of scripted vignettes, at first disconnected but gradually overlapping. With visual grace, and a certain wit, the film entwines a coalman’s working day with students’ revels by night, the proceedings of a court with the rituals of a courtship.

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Directed by
John Eldridge
Genres
Drama
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    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • work
    • class
    • identity
    • love
    • family
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    • home
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    • ensemble
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance3
    Tension2
    Darkness2
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight3

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    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    John Eldridge
    Runtime
    31 min
    Country
    United Kingdom
    Languages
    English

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