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T2 Trainspotting on #Berlinale - Can nostalgia be punk too?

He's back. Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton, the combative junkie who started a new life 20 years ago by abandoning his friends. Now he first finds his old buddy Spud (Ewan Bremner) with a plastic bag full of puke over his head. Then he steps into his boyhood room with endearing train wallpaper and carefully puts on one of his LPs from the past. A raucous rock tears up the silence. A quarter of a second later, he jerks the needle off the record, startled. Looking back...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

He's back. Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton, the combative junkie who started a new life 20 years ago by abandoning his friends. Now he first finds his old buddy Spud (Ewan Bremner) with a plastic bag full of puke over his head. Then he steps into his boyhood room with endearing train wallpaper and carefully puts on one of his LPs from the past. A raucous rock tears up the silence. A quarter of a second later, he jerks the needle off the record, startled. Looking back...

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