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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...

Edinburgh / Jamie Neish

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....

Edinburgh / Jamie Neish

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 –...

Edinburgh / Jamie Neish

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Edinburgh 2014: ‘Hellion’ review

Edinburgh
24 June 2014

★★★☆☆ Teenage rebellion in the sundrenched plains of Texas is the subject of Kat Candler’s Hellion (2014), an ultimately unremarkable drama starring Breaking Bad’s...

Edinburgh 2014: ’40 Days of Silence’ review

Edinburgh / Patrick Gamble
24 June 2014

★★★☆☆ As the old proverb goes, “The best answer to anger is silence”. In Saodat Ismailova’s sensory meditation on the realities of womanhood, we...

Edinburgh 2014: ‘Sorrow and Joy’ review

Edinburgh / Harriet Warman
22 June 2014

★★☆☆☆ Film director Johannes (Jakob Cedergren) returns home from a trip to be told that his wife Signe (Helle Fagralid) has killed their infant...

Edinburgh 2014: ‘Manakamana’ review

Edinburgh / Patrick Gamble
22 June 2014

★★★★☆ The latest from Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (the same team who brought us last year’s Leviathan), Manakamana (2013) is another non-narrative, observational...

Edinburgh 2014: ‘Koo! Kin-dza-dza’ review

Edinburgh / Patrick Gamble
21 June 2014

★★★☆☆ In 1986, Georgiy Daneliya made Kin-dza-dza, a highly celebrated science fiction satire of the Soviet Union. A live-action, steam punk-infused parable that reflected...

Edinburgh 2014: ‘Journey to the West’ review

Daniel Green / Edinburgh
21 June 2014

★★★★☆ In Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, the dutiful limo driver of billionaire asset manager Eric Packer coldly describes how the traffic before them “speaks in...