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Tag: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Whisky Galore ****
Whisky Galore - it's pure, dead Brigadoon, so it is!
This is a perfect end to the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Gillies MacKinnon...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Away ***
Sweet, offbeat film from director David Blair which throws together two unlikely and very different characters. There are moving performances by desperate Joseph (Timothy Spall) and...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – The Man Who Was Thursday ***
The Man Who Was Thursday, Balazs Juszt's directorial debut received its World Premiere in Edinburgh.
The film adaptation altered the Chesterton narrative for the sake of...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Library Suicides (Y Llyfrgell)****
An unusual, entirely original story, The Library Suicides kept me guessing till the end.
In Welsh with English subtitles and based on Fflur Dafydd's novel,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Childhood of a Leader *
The biggest disappointment of this reviewer's festival, The Childhood of a Leader held great promise - musical score by Scott Walker, an examination...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Brakes ***
Mercedes Grower's Brakes is a montage of the ends and beginnings of a set of diverse relationships. She herself plays Layla who becomes pregnant by Noel Fielding's...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The White King ***
Alex Helfrecht & Jorg Tittel's opening scene presents an idyllic view of what could be any family relaxing by any beautiful river but we soon...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Under the Sun (V luchakh solna)***
Disturbing documentary of life in North Korea as illustrated by following an 'ordinary' family in Pyongyang for one year.
The North Korean authorities carefully scripted...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Saint Amour ***
Deliciously naughty, mad-cap wine tour and road trip taken by father (Gerard Depardieu) and son (Benoit Poelvoorde) farmers in order to try and bond...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Best of the Fest – Sunday, 26th June
Best of the Fest is your last chance to see the cream of the crop from this year's Festival. We're putting on a series of...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 My Feral Heart ***
A bittersweet drama about Luke, a young man with Down’s Syndrome (the excellent Steven Brandon) who performs all of the household tasks and his...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Endless Night (Nadie quiere la Noche) *****
A lush, extravagant, brilliant triumph of a drama, Spanish director Isabel Coixet's Endless Night transfixes and mesmerises.
Based on a true story, Josephine Peary...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Commune (Kollektivet) ***
In Danish with English subtitles
Set in the age of Sixties free love, Erik (Ulrich Thomsen) has inherited a large Copenhagen house from his deceased...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Pale Star **
Scottish director Graeme Maley's use of a bleak, stark, cold Icelandic setting sets the tone for this harsh, violent film. After a graphic start when poteen-distiller Dis...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Aloys **
Tobias Nolle's film Aloys sees the eponymous character (Georg Friedrich) and his father running a seedy detective agency together until his father dies. Now all...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Ithaca ***
Based on William Saroyen's book 'The Human Comedy', the film is set in wartime Ithaca, New York. The only thing which would have made...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 River ****
Jamie M Dagg's directorial debut is a lightning-paced, action-packed thriller, tense as a taut wire and set mostly in Laos.
Young doctor John Lake (Rossif...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Families (Belles Familles) ***
Jean-Paul Rappeneau has directed a witty, urbane comedy with just slight Whitehall Farce overtones.
Mathieu Amalric plays a French businessman based in Shanghai, dropping in...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Diving into the Unknown (Takaisin pintaan) *****
Astonishing, mind-blowing account of a team of Finnish divers recovering the bodies of their dead colleagues from an underwater cave in northern Norway.
In...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Founders ***
Interesting documentary about the founding of the Ladies' Professional Golf Association in the States.
Interviews with some of the original founders and current press...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Sixty-Six ***
UK Premiere
Well, I'm really not quite sure how to describe Lewis Klahr's Sixty Six - it's a stream of art consciousness, over twelve episodes,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Forsaken *****
Now please understand, Westerns are not this reviewer's thing. Or gratuitous violence or the brooding menace which come with the genre. But Jon Cassar's Forsaken is...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Harold and Lillian, a Hollywood Love Story ****
Utterly charming and delightful, this documentary is a sweet cornucopia of anecdotes, facts and film clips around the lives of the Michelsons. When Harold Michelson...
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