Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2004
The EIFF programme says: "Ground-breaking new work from the world's most important filmmakers."
18 films · 13 reviews
A film of refreshingly non-intertwining stories and nice characterisation.
(Country: Taiwan/Hong Kong; Year: 2004; Director: Sylvia Chang; Writer: Sylvia Chang, GC Goo Bi, Cat Kwan; Stars: Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Kate Yeung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Lee Sinje)
UK Premiere
(Country: France; Year: 2004; Director: Catherine Breillat; Writer: Catherine Breillat; Stars: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi)
UK Premiere
A well-executed tale of paranoia and insularity.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2004; Director: Atilla Janisch; Writer: Andras Forgach; Stars: Tibor Gaspar, Bori Derzsi, Sandor Czeczo, Denes Ujlaki, Kati Lazar)
UK Premiere
(Country: Chile, Spain, Venezuela; Year: 2003; Director: Gonzalo Justiniano; Writer: Fernando Aragón, Sergio Gómez, Gonzalo Justiniano, Daniela Lillo; Stars: Manuela Martelli, Eduardo Barril, Lorene Prieto, Felipe Ríos, Ricardo Fernández, Gloria Laso, Sergio Hernández, José Martin, Juan Pablo Sáez, Gabriela Hernández, Juan Falcón)
UK Premiere
An enjoyably quirky, thought provoking and, above all, thoroughly cinematic experience.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2003; Director: Robert Lepage; Writer: Robert Lepage; Stars: Robert Lepage, Celine Bonnier, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Lorraine Cote, Sophie Faucher, Richard Frechette, Erika Gagnon, Gregory Hlady)
Scottish Premiere
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2003; Director: Im Sang-soo ; Writer: Im Sang-soo ; Stars: Moon So-ri, Kim In-mun, Yun Yeo-Jong, Bong Tae-gyu)
UK Premiere
(Country: France; Year: 2003; Director: Guillaume Nicloux; Writer: Guillaume Nicloux; Stars: Josiane Balasko, Eric Caravaca, Ange Rodot, Aurélien Recoing, Frédéric Pierrot, Thierry Lhermitte, Didier Abot, Dominique Bettenfeld, Pascal Bongard, Stéphane Comby, Béatrice Chauvin)
UK Premiere
(Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2004; Director: Petter Næss; Writer: Johan Bogaeus; Stars: Kaia Foss, Kamilla Grønli Hartvig, Ida Thurman-Moe, Maria Brinch, Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Henrik Skjerve, Fredric Finzi Gjertsen, Christoffer Lossius, Stig Zeiner-Gundersen, Nastaran Javedani)
UK Premiere
Bale's performance is superb, his devotion to the role scary.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2004; Director: Brad Anderson; Writer: Scott Kosar; Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Michael Ironside, John Sharian)
UK Premiere
A passionate, almost angry look at events often forgotten in world history.
(Country: Chile/Spain/UK/France; Year: 2004; Director: Andres Wood; Writer: Andres Wood, Roberto Brodsky, Mamoun Hassan; Stars: Mathias Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Kuppenheim, Ernesto Malbran, Francisco Reyes)
UK Premiere
A film both extreme and tender, yet tremendously entertaining.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2004; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Joon-hyung, Park Chan-wook, Tsuchiya Garon, Minegishi Nobuaki; Stars: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung, Chi Dae-han, Oh Dal-su, Kim Byoung-ok, Lee Seung-shin, Yoon Jin-seo, Lee Dae-yun, Oh Gwang-rok)
UK Premiere
You know you're watching a dull movie when you begin to undress the female cast in your imagination, even if they're not that hot.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2004; Director: Matteo Garrone; Writer: Matteo Garrone, Vitaliano Trevisan, Massismo Gaudioso; Stars: Vitaliano Trevisian, Michela Cescon)
UK Premiere
Ye Lou's visual style is that of a photographer's romantic vision, yet without flair.
(Country: China/France; Year: 2003; Director: Ye Lou; Writer: Ye Lou; Stars: Zhang Ziyi, Ye Lou, Yanzheng Feng, Toru Nakamura, Li Bingbing)
UK Premiere
(Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Kôsuke Mukai, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Nobuhiro Yamashita; Stars: Keiji Nagatsuka, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Machiko Ono, Masaaki Takakura, Takeshi Yamamoto, , , , , , )
UK Premiere
Simultaneously comical and unsettling.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2004; Director: Felipe Vega; Writer: Manuel Hidalgo, Felipe Vega; Stars: Roberto Enrique, Natalia Millan, David Selvas, Irene Montala, Roger Casamajor)
International Premiere
Director Sudhir Mishra has taken on more than he can chew.
(Country: India; Year: 2003; Director: Sudhir Mishra; Writer: Sudhir Mishra, Shiv Kumar Subramanium, Ruchi Narain; Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Roshan Ahuja, Chitrangda Singh, Saurabh Shukla, Anupam Shyam, Arif Zakaria, Ram Kapoor, Aditya Bhattacharya, Yashpal Sharma, Sohrab Ardeshir)
UK Premiere
As coincidence after coincidence piles up the plot becomes somewhat predictable.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Satoshi Kon, Shogo Furuya; Writer: Keiko Nobumoto, Satoshi Kon, based on a story by Satoshi Kon; Stars: voices of Tori Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Ava Okamoto)
UK Premiere
The film deviates from more caricatured tales of domestic brutality.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2003; Director: Iciar Bollain; Writer: Iciar Bollain, Alicia Luna; Stars: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Pena, Rosa Maria Sarda, Sergi Calleja, Kiti Manver, Elisabet Gelabert, Nicolas Fernandez Luna, Dave Mooney, Chus Gutierrez)
UK Premiere
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