EIFF 2013: ‘Fat Shaker’ review
★★☆☆☆ Winner of the Tiger Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, Mohammad Shirvani’s Fat Shaker (Larzanandeye charbi, 2013) went on to become the...
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2 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
★★★★☆ Golden Bear-winning cultural assimilation drama Synonyms is expertly handled by its director Nadav Lapid. That of relocating, whether it be by city, country...
1 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: End of Sentence review
★★★☆☆ The strained relationship between a father and his son is tenderly observed in End of Sentence, the debut feature film from Elfar Adalsteins....
29 June 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Schemers review
★★★☆☆ Filmed in and around Scotland’s fourth largest city Dundee, Schemers – receiving its World Premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival –...
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EIFF 2013: ‘Taboor’ review
★★★☆☆ Pushing Iranian cinema into a new stratosphere, Vahid Vakilifar’s Taboor (2012) is a bleak and meditative study of a society rotting from the...
EIFF 2013: ‘Viola’ review
★★★★☆ With latest effort Viola (2012), Argentine director Matías Piñeiro continues his fascination with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in what could be seen as a...
EIFF 2013: ‘Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction’
★★★★☆ One of cinema’s silent heroes, Harry Dean Stanton has become a staple ingredient of many a film-lover’s diet. The career of Hollywood’s most...
EIFF 2013: ‘Breathe In’ review
★★★☆☆ The opening film of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, Drake Doremus’ sophomore effort Breathe In (2013) is the discreetly anticipated follow-up to...
EIFF 2013: Full programme unveiled
Last month saw the release of the full lineup for the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival. In his second year as artistic director, Chris...
