Peter Mullan

For anyone who remembers watching John’s Not Mad, the breakthrough TV documentary about John Davidson, a young British man with severe Tourette’s syndrome, I Swear is more of the same – a supportive and tender film about a man walking about with a neurological glitch that makes him tic uncontrollably, swear inappropriately and say all the wrong things at the wrong times. The condition is often, to the outsider, very funny, it must be said. John’s Not Mad knew this – what a joy it was to watch a TV show in prim 1989 primetime with F bombs detonating all over the place. I Swear knows it too. It opens with a grown-up … Read more