Tuesday June 19, 2001
The Guardian

Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton are to star in an adaptation of the classic Scottish existential novel Young Adam. The novel was written in the late Fifties by Alexander Trocchi; its adaptation will be directed by David Mackenzie. The project is scheduled to begin shooting in Glasgow in August. It tells the story of a drifter who finds work on a barge on the Forth and Clyde canal, only to discover a floating female corpse.

The movie is budgeted at about £4m. The government-backed film-funding agency Scottish Screen will donate £500,000. Trocchi is celebrated among the Scottish literati as the nation's only Beat writer. His 1963 masterpiece, Cain's Book, describes his own experiences of heroin addiction. Trocchi also edited an international literary magazine, Merlin, which published work by Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. He appeared in William Burroughs's cult movie Towers Open Fire in 1963.

McGregor is currently filming Star Wars: Episode 2 in Australia. UK audiences will next see him in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge; his last Scottish-set movie was Trainspotting in 1996. Tilda Swinton was last seen in Danny Boyle's The Beach and in Tim Roth's The War Zone. 
 

2001 - The Deep End
Tilda Swinton provides a moving portrait of suburban anguish in "The Deep End", starring as Margaret Hall, a woman dragged deep into crime and corruption through her attempts to protect her family "Margaret is a tremendous challenge because she's a character who spends a lot of time by herself. She goes through this crisis almost entirely alone, so she has to express the depths of her emotion through her face, body and gestures more than her words," explains Scott McGehee. "Tilda Swinton has a face that can move you in utter silence. Her eyes exude intelligence and passion. And, oddly, when we talked to her she told us that she was very interested in exploring the subtle and powerful ways that the face can be used in close-up. We knew we had the right actress."
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21.01.2001
Tilda Swinton receives the 'Berliner Filmpreis'. The British actress personifies a so far unknown intelligent as well as sensual type of women, "with which the European film enriches the wolrd cinema", the jury explained.