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Thursday, 24 August 2023
Fremont, Edinburgh International Film Festival
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It's in black and white, slow paced, nothing much happens. But that won't stop you enjoying Fremont. Donya is a twenty-something Af...
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart, Filmhouse, Edinburgh International Film Festival
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The audience entered to live music from Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle) and Brìghde Chaimbeul (Scottish smallpipes), followed by an EIFF introd...
Friday, 5 July 2019
Her Job (I Doulia tis), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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Panayiota (Marisha Triantafyllidou) is a downtrodden 30-something housewife, at the beck and call of unemployed husband Kostas (Dimitris Ime...
Alice, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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Alice Ferrand (Emilie Piponnier) lives a happy, middle class family life with husband François Martin Swabey) and young son Jules. Alice F...
The Mystery of Henri Pick (Le mystère Henri Pick), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse
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Daphné (Alice Isaaz), a young book editor from Paris, takes her partner Frederic (Bastien Bouillon) to her parents country house in Brittany...
Skin, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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In the opening scene Bryon Widner (Jamie Bell) is about to undergo surgery, the start of a long and painful physical expunging of his past. ...
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
The Souvenir, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Odeon
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I did consider writing this review in just five words, but felt I should try a bit harder. Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is studying film ma...
Photograph, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Odeon
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Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a street photographer in Mumbai, just about making enough to send money back to his family village, sharing a ...
Saturday, 29 June 2019
The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant), Edinburgh international Film Festival, Omni
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With no real options for work in his remote village, teenager Franz (Simon Morzé) is sent off to Vienna by his mother, to work for Otto Trsn...
Friday, 28 June 2019
Ode to Joy, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Odeon
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Charlie (Martin Freeman) is a librarian who suffers from cataplexy, a condition that makes him lose control of his body, and sometimes faint...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The Grizzlies, Edinburgh international Film Festival, Odeon
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Based on a true story from 2004/05, this is your standard redemptive sports movie with an attention to background that gives it a depth the ...
Champions (Campeones), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse
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Marco (Javier Gutiérrez) is assistant coach at a top pro basketball club. Until he assaults the head coach during a match, gets drunk and d...
Strange But True, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Odeon
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In the opening scene Philip (Nick Robinson) is running through the woods as best he can with a leg in plaster and one crutch to lean on, pan...
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Venezia, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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Sofia (Paula Lussi) lies sobbing on a hotel bed. She goes out, accompanied by a policeman, looking sad and bewildered. Is she under arrest...
Monday, 24 June 2019
Liberte : A Call to Spy, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Odeon
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The story begins in London, 1941, with the Special Operations Executive trying to find ways to infiltrate agents into France where they can ...
Cronofobia, Edinburgh international Film Festival, Omni
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T easing introductory scenes draw the audience swiftly into a mystery that is never wholly dispelled. What is Michael (Vinicio Marchioni) ...
Emma Peeters, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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Far from being your typical Romcom, this joint Belgian/Canadian production set in Paris is imaginative and quirky. When the eponymous strug...
In a Foreign Land (En tierra extraña), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse
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A documentary looking into the reasons why the Spanish community in Edinburgh increased so rapidly after the 2008 financial crash. It inte...
Friday, 21 June 2019
The Fall of the American Empire (La chute de l'empire américain), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry) considers himself an intellectual, too intelligent for the needs of capitalist society, and that's why he...
And With a Smile, The Revolution! (Avec un sourire, la révolution!), Edinburgh International Film Festival, Omni
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A Quebecois take on the 2017 Catalan independence referendum. Director Alexandre Chartrand and his team spent several months in Barcelona i...
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