Hallam Foe

Aroview: Jamie Bell plays the film's titular voyeur, a compulsive rooftop snoop in pursuit of justice and love, in this breezy, twisted romance.

Fleeing from his father’s evil trophy wife (Forlani), Bell has the angry, mucked up teenager role down pat, turning his knotted obsession to the beguiling Sophia Myles, who also happens to resemble his late (and supposedly murdered) mother. From a novel by Peter Jinks, dir. MacKenzie reaches for the same dark human recesses grasped at in YOUNG ADAM, yet keeps things offbeat and blackly humorous. Also set in Scotland.