Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2005
The EIFF programme says: "This is the section dedicated to ground-breaking new films from established international directors."
19 films · 13 reviews
Antares is another nail in the coffin of brevity.
(Country: Austria; Year: 2004; Director: Gotz Spielmann; Writer: Gotz Spielmann; Stars: Petra Morze, Andreas Patton, Hary Prinz, Susanne Wuest, Dennis Cubic, Martina Zinner, Andreas Kiendl)
UK Premiere
Slickly orchestrated by director Sergio Cabrera with good performances.
(Country: Columbia/Spain; Year: 2004; Director: Sergio Cabrera; Writer: Sergio Cabrera, Jorge Goldenberg, based on the novel by Santiago Gamboa; Stars: Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Martina Garcia, Cesar Mora, Victor Mallarino, Umberto Dorado)
UK Premiere
(Country: Russia, Ukraine; Year: 2004; Director: Pavel Chukhraj; Writer: Pavel Chukhraj; Stars: Igor Petrenko, Yelena Babenko, Bogdan Stupka, Andrei Panin, Yekaterina Yudina, Marina Golub, Valeri Barinov, Natalja Gudkova, Alisa Grebenshchikova, Dimitri Vysotsky, Aleksei Zelensky)
UK Premiere
(Country: Spain/Italy/France; Year: 2004; Director: Alex de la Iglesia; Writer: Alex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarria; Stars: Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera, Luis Varela, Fernando Tejero, Kira Miro, Enrique Villen, Javier Gutierrez, Tosario Pardo, Gracia Olaya)
UK Premiere
Too enigmatic and slow burning for its own good.
(Country: Germany/France; Year: 2005; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold; Stars: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurelien Recoing, Benno Furmann)
UK Premiere
Art, or arse? Well, we certainly see plenty of Toth's behind as she orgasms elderly blokes back to health.
(Country: Hungary/Germany; Year: 2005; Director: Kornel Mundruczo; Writer: Kornel Mundruczo, Viktoria Petranyi; Stars: Orsi Toth, Zsolt Trill, Ildiko Cserna, Denes Gulyas, Istvan Gantner )
UK Premiere
This is a film that you respect, rather than enjoy.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Lodge Kerrigan; Writer: Lodge Kerrigan; Stars: Damian Lewis, Amy Ryan, Abigail Breslin, Tina Holmes, Christopher Evan Welch)
UK Premiere
The central performances from Luigi Lo Cascio and Sandra Ceccarelli are sublime, free from the usual heavy handedness used to indicate acting within a film.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2004; Director: Giuseppe Piccioni; Writer: Giuseppe Piccioni, Linda Ferri; Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli, Galatea Ranzi, Fabio Camilli, Sasa Vulicevic, Roberto Citran, Ninnie Bruschetta, Camilla Filippi, Gea Lionello, Paolo Sassanelli, Sonia Gessner)
UK Premiere
No plot, no point, except L'Intrus is consistently exciting to look at.
(Country: France; Year: 2004; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau; Stars: Michel Subor, Katia Golubeva, Gregoire Colin, Bambou, Beatrice Dalle, Florence Loiret-Caille, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas, Kim Dong-ho, Chang Se-tak)
UK Premiere
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2004; Director: Im Kwon-taek; Writer: Im Kwon-taek)
UK Premiere
(Country: Serbia and Montenegro; Year: 2004; Director: Goran Paskaljevic; Writer: Filip David, Goran Paskaljevic, Goran Paskaljevic; Stars: Lazar Ristovski, Jasna Zalica, Jovana Mitic, Slobodan Ninkovic, Nenad Jezdic, Danica Ristovski, Dusan Janicijevic, Fedja Stojanovic, Vlasta Velisavljevic, Jovan Ristovski, Azra Cengic)
UK Premiere
Heredia is fresh and perfectly cast as the hyperactive rent boy and his vital energy really pushes the film along, making up for the fairly ordinary cinematography and shaky camera work.
(Country: Argentina/France; Year: 2005; Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky; Writer: Edgardo Cozarinsky; Stars: Gonzalo Heredia, Moro Anghileri, Rafael Ferro, Mario Ferro, Dario Tripicchio)
UK Premiere
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2005; Director: Ole Christian Madsen; Writer: Jakob Ejersbo, Bo Hr. Hansen, Ole Christian Madsen; Stars: Signe Egholm Olsen, Claus Riis Østergaard, Thure Lindhardt, Farshad Kholghi, Thomas L Corneliussen, Pernille Vallentin Brandt, Signe Vaupel, Rudi Köhnke, Maria Stenz, Finn Storgaard, Lars Mikkelsen)
International Premiere
(Country: France; Year: 2004; Director: John Lvoff; Writer: John Lvoff, Camille Fontaine; Stars: Julie Depardieu, Dominique Reymond, Eric Elmosnino, Andre Marcon, Lionel Parlier)
UK Premiere
The film feels fractured, with bizarre transitions and editing, which often leave you wondering quite what's going on.
(Country: Sweden/Finland; Year: 2004; Director: Reza Bagher; Writer: Reza Bagher, based on the book by Mikael Niemi; Stars: Niklas Ulfvarson, Max Enderfors, Tommy Vallikari, Andreas Af Enehjelm, Bjorn Kjellman, Jarmo Makinen, Kati Outinen, Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala, Goran Forsmark, Lisa Lindgren, Sten Ljunggren)
UK Premiere
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2005; Director: Im Sang-soo; Writer: Im Sang-soo; Stars: Jae-ho Song, Suk-kyu Han, Yun-shik Baek, Won-jung Jeong, Sang-geon Jo, Sang-ho Kim, Byung-gil Kwun, Jae-gu Lee, Seong-wook Kim, Dong-hun Choi, Sang-gun Cho)
UK Premiere
A fascinating film, rich in unspoken detail.
(Country: Russia/Italy/France/Switzerland; Year: 2004; Director: Alexander Sokurov; Writer: Yury Arabov; Stars: Issey Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shiri Sano, Shinmei Tsuji, Taijiro Tamura, Georgy Pitskhelauri, Hiroya Morita, Toshiaki Nishizawa, Naomasa Musaka)
UK Premiere
The trans-European train on which the film's sections unfold is the perfect setting for such a synergistic venture.
(Country: Italy/UK/Iran; Year: 2005; Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi; Writer: Abbas Kiarostami, Paul Laverty, Ermanno Olmi; Stars: Carlo Dele Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis, Filippo Trojano, Martin Compston, William Ruane, Gary Maitland, Blerta Cahani, Klajdi Qorraj, Aishe Gjuriqi, Sanije Dedja, Kled Salaj, Edmond Budina, Danilo Nigrelli, Carolina Benvenga, Marta Ma)
UK Premiere
An ambitious premise that only just falls short of genius.
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2004; Director: Jan Hrebejk; Writer: Jan Hrebejk, Petr Jarchovsky; Stars: Petr Forman, Emília Vasaryova, Jan Triska, Ingrid Timkova, Kristyna Bokova, Jirí Machacek, Natasa Burger)
UK Premiere
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