Loving Memory

Is it even done to talk about Tony Scott’s first film? He made Loving Memory 13 years before The Hunger with BFI money (reportedly some Albert Finney money as well), it was shown at Cannes, and then the younger Scott didn’t direct a film for more than a decade when he came out with fairly different material. At only 50 minutes in length, it’s a curious mood piece and not much else, and I was mostly just kind of bored.

A young man (David Pugh) is riding his bicycle around the rural part of...