Private Road. Barney Platts-Mills, 1971.
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Edition screened: BFI ‘Flipside’ #14, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 89 minutes.
Summary: Hunting violence, comparatively mild.
Details: On his second hunting attempt, Bruce Robinson shoots into a ravine and is excited to have hit something. He pokes around in the bushes and pulls out a dead rabbit at 36:52. General kitchen banter around the dead rabbit through 38:10, followed immediately by a short scene of trying to remove a hook from a fish’s mouth, through 38:34.
The BFI release of Private Road also includes Platts-Mills’s documentary St. Christopher about educating mentally handicapped individuals, and The Last Chapter, a good adaptation of a story by John Fowles.