"There's a year of my life bottled into every line," Murdoch says.
Open suitcases also overflowed with the stuff of everyday life: bottles, appliances, tennis balls.
Both portray young men playing music, surrounded by the stuff of real life: bottles, fruit, musical instruments and food.
Once you are on them the view is blighted by the detritus of modern life: plastic bottles, trainers, whiskey and gin bottles, bits of wood.
In "Memory of My Life: Breaking Bottles," she is the woman smashing liquor bottles in a rage at the damage that alcohol is causing her family and friends.
"Now, I done grew up 'round some people living their life in bottles," he intoned.
"Still Life With Bottles," with its emphasis on rock-solid forms sitting in an indeterminate space, feels akin to Giorgio Morandi, another dark horse of modernist painting.
Unlike Mr. Kiarostami, who has a genius for translating the natural rhythms of nonprofessional performers to the screen, who siphons real life and bottles it, Mr. Forster never makes you believe in these children or their woes.
He reminisces about the adults in his family "living their life in bottles".
An independent film producer who experienced a life-changing bottle of Morgon while on her honeymoon in Paris in 2003, she was compelled eventually to launch an online wine store in 2007, an extension of a blog she had started.
Her free arm cradles a larger-than-life-sized bottle of the perfume while she stares dreamily into the distance, perhaps contemplating the powers of the high-end elixir.
