EIFF 2013: ‘Everybody’s Gone’ review
β β β ββ A surreal period piece about a small Georgian community during the dying whimpers of the Soviet Union, Georgy Paradzhanov’s Everybody’s Gone (Vse ushli,...
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2 July 2019
Edinburgh 2019: Synonyms review
β β β β β 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
β β β ββ 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
β β β ββ Filmed in and around Scotlandβs fourth largest city Dundee, Schemers – receiving its World Premiere at this yearβs Edinburgh International Film Festival –...
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EIFF 2013: ‘Shooting Bigfoot’ review
β β β ββ The mockumentary has steadily evolved over the last 30 years, borrowing here and there from the found footage and talking head formats that...
EIFF 2013: ‘Roland Hassel’ review
β β βββ UK audiences have acquired quite the taste for Scandinavian crime drama, with shows like The Killing, Borgen and Wallander all received with open...
EIFF 2013: ‘Comrade Kim Goes Flying’ review
β β βββ If you haven’t yet decided on your summer holiday destination, you might want to consider the fertile fields, magnificent mountain ranges and awe-inspiring...
EIFF 2013: ‘The Berlin File’ review
β β βββ Missions, murders and conspiracies: the basic recipe for almost all of Seung-wan Ryoo’s films. His ninth feature, The Berlin File (2013), borrows a...
EIFF 2013: ‘A Story of Children and Film’ review
β β β β β An abridged appendix to his five-hour essay The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), critic-turned-director Mark Cousins brings his latest documentary to the...
EIFF 2013: ‘Upstream Color’ review
β β β β β Shane Carruth’s independently financed, mind-boggler of a time travel movie Primer (2004) earned the director a well-earned cult following. Nine years later, we...
EIFF 2013: ‘I Am Breathing’ review
β β β ββ A documentary every bit as humorous and uplifting as it is tragic and melancholic, Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon’s I Am Breathing (2013)...
