Arts
fromThe New Yorker
1 week agoDouglas Stuart on the Push and Pull of an Old Life Versus a New One
The story 'A Private View' explores themes of class, art, and personal identity through a museum setting.
The extended footage of Welsh in conversation is certainly engaging, as he discusses his writing and the movies it created, and his own youth in Edinburgh. Some of the rest of the interviewees aren't quite so gripping, however, and the film is padded out with a fair bit of redundant anecdotage from people on the subject of getting hilariously wasted in Irvine's company or at least his approximate vicinity.