Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2005
The EIFF programme says: "New, bold innovative voices from all over the world. Rosebud is our invitation to you to share the rush of discovery. These are your favourite films by your favourite directors; you just don't know them yet."
26 films · 20 reviews
It's a far more interesting movie to think about than to watch.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2004; Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky; Writer: Vladimir Sorokin; Stars: Marina Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko, Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergei Shnurov, Yuri Laguta, Konstantin Murzenko, Alexei Khvostenko)
UK Premiere
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2005; Director: Semih Kaplanoglu; Writer: Semih Kaplanoglu; Stars: Tulin Ozen, Budak Akalin, Musa Karagöz, Engin Dogan, Yesim Ceren Bozoglu, Özlem Turhal, Can Kolukisa)
UK Premiere
Astronauts is a fast, fun film.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2004; Director: Santi Amodeo; Writer: Santi Amodeo; Stars: Nancho Novo, Teresa Hurtado De Ory, Alex O'Dogherty, Manolo Solo, Juan Motilla, Jons Pappila)
UK Premiere
(Country: Mexico/France/Germany/Belgium; Year: 2005; Director: Carlos Reygadas; Writer: Carlos Reygadas; Stars: Marcos Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bornstien, Rosilanda Ramirez)
UK Premiere
(Country: Germany, Vietnam; Year: 2005; Director: Minh Phuong Doan, Thanh Nghia Doan; Writer: Minh Phuong Doan; Stars: Truong Ngoc Anh, Nguyen manh Thang, Truong huu Quy, Tran Minh Thanh, Trinh mai Anh, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Ngo Thanh Binh, , , , )
UK Premiere
Too cold and distanced.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2004; Director: Nami Iguchi; Writer: Nami Iguchi; Stars: Kanako Enomoto, Yoko Fujita, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shugo Oshinari, )
UK Premiere
Fourteen Sucks may be a provocative title, but it's a solid and promising debut.
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2004; Director: Filippa Freijd, Martin Jern, Emil Larsson, Henrik Norrthon; Writer: Martin Jern; Stars: Elin Ahlberg, Jorgen Duberg, Emily Nilsson, Thea Klitte, Thomas Hesslow, Simon Lindell)
UK Premiere
Fabienne Berthaud's film meanders between dissonant, ethereal scenes in the sanatorium and the frenetic action of a photographer's studios... the contrast between these two worlds is absolute.
(Country: France; Year: 2005; Director: Fabienne Berthaud; Writer: Fabienne Berthaud; Stars: Diane Kruger, Jeanick Gravelines, Christian Wiggert, J Alexander, Brigitte Catillon, Gerald Marie, Jean Louis Place, Claude Jean Girard, Sylvia Hoecks, Alexander Schwab)
UK Premiere
There isn't a whiff of falsehood, or evidence of a set designer's duster.
(Country: France; Year: 2005; Director: Frédéric Balekdjian; Writer: Frédéric Balekdjian; Stars: Pascal Elbe, Simon Abkarian, Isaac Sharry, Linh Dan Pham, Teng Fei Xiang )
UK Premiere
(Country: Iran; Year: 2005; Director: Mohammad Rasoulof; Writer: Mohammad Rasoulof; Stars: Ali Nasirian, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh, Neda Pakdaman)
UK Premiere
Creates hauntingly evocative, empty spaces that bleed history.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Phil Morrison; Writer: Angus MacLachlan; Stars: Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Ben McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Celia Weston, Scott Wilson, Frank Hoyt Taylor)
UK Premiere
A classic three-tissue melodrama.
(Country: USA; Year: 1948; Director: Max Ophuls; Writer: Howard Koch, Max Ophüls, Stefan Zweig; Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke, Howard Freeman, John Good, Leo B. Pessin, Erskine Sanford, Otto Waldis)
UK Premiere
(Country: Russia; Year: 2005; Director: Anna Melikyan; Writer: Anna Melikyan; Stars: Gosha Kutsenko, Nana Kiknadze, Artur Smolianinov)
UK Premiere
For a film shot in 10 days on a budget of around $3000, it's quite an achievement.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2005; Director: Scott Ryan; Writer: Scott Ryan; Stars: Scott Ryan, Massimiliano Andrighetto, Ben Walker, Kane Mason, Nathaniel Lindsay, Adam Ryan)
International Premiere
A good 25 minutes could have been trimmed off the length without anyone noticing.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2005; Director: Jannik Johansen; Writer: Jannik Johansen, Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro, Laerke Winther Andersen, Lotte Bergstrom, Laura Drasbaek, Anne Sophie Byder)
UK Premiere
(Country: France; Year: 2005; Director: Emmanuel Carrère; Writer: Jérôme Beaujour, Emmanuel Carrère, Emmanuel Carrère; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Cylia Malki, Macha Polikarpova, Fantine Camus, Frédéric Imberty, Brigitte Bémol, Denis Menochet, Franck Richard)
UK Premiere
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2004; Director: Margarida Cardoso; Writer: Cedric Basso, Margarida Cardoso, Lídia Jorge; Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Monica Calle, Adriano Luz, Luís Sarmento, João Ricardo, Dinarte Branco, Sandra Faleiro, Bia Gomes, Fernando Luís, Carlos Pimenta)
UK Premiere
(Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Belgium; Year: 2005; Director: Juan Diego Solanas; Writer: Eduardo Berti, Juan Diego Solanas; Stars: Carole Bouquet, Aymará Rovera, Mercedes Sampietro, Ignacio Jiménez, Emilio Bardi, Juan Pablo Domenech, Jorge Román, Rodrigo Alejandro Hornos, Esteban Luis Gonzáles, Mario Marcelo Reinoso, Daniel Valenzuela)
UK Premiere
A startling work that teaches the redemptive power of self-forgiveness
(Country: Switzerland/Belgium; Year: 2004; Director: Greg Zglinski; Writer: Pierre-Pascal Rossi; Stars: Aurélien Recoing, Marie Matheron, Gabriela Muskala, Blerim Gjoci, Nathalie Boulin, Antonio Buíl, Gilles Tschudi, Michel Voïta)
UK Premiere
Police Beat is a strange little film. Niang is stiff and wooden at times, but, at others, the flow is perfect.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Robinson Devor; Writer: Robinson Devor, Charles Mudede; Stars: Pape Sidy Niang, Anna Oxygen, Eric Breedlove, Sarah Harlett, Elijah Geiger)
International Premiere
Realistic and deeply heartfelt.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Jay Duplass; Writer: Mark Duplass; Stars: Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton, Rhett Wilkins, Julie Fischer, Bari Hyman, Gerald Finnegan, Larry Duplass, Cindy Duplass, Henry Barendse, David Parsons, Jose Manuel Alvarado)
International Premiere
The film is so preposterously overwrought and mundane that it's hard to imagine that writer/director Steve Mahone could overlook such obvious dullness.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Steve Mahone; Writer: Steve Mahone; Stars: James Cable, Jim Covaultg, Sandy Fish, Jeremy Schwartz, Matthew Tompkins, Laurel Whitsett)
International Premiere
(Country: Italy; Year: 2004; Director: Paolo Franchi; Writer: Heidrun Schleef, Rinaldo Rocco, Daniela Ceselli, Diego Ribon, Paolo Franchi; Stars: Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Renzi, Brigitte Catillon, Chiara Picchi, Matteo Mussoni, Giorgio Podo, Carlotta Centanni, Cesare Cremonini, Natascia Macchniz, Giorgio Marchesi, Raffaele Fallica)
UK Premiere
The Wedding is a delightful satire on Polish marriage traditions but much of what it features is so universal that people all over the world will be able to identify with it.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2004; Director: Wojciech Smarzowski; Writer: Wojciech Smarzowski; Stars: Marian Dziedziel, Tamara Arciuch, Pawel Wilczak, Iwona Bielska, Lech Dyblik, Andrzej Beja-Zaborski, Pawel Gedlek, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Bartlomiej Topa)
UK Premiere
The dialogue is sparse and when the characters do speak, it's clunkily written, laden with insipid profundities, and often badly delivered.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2005; Director: Carsten Gebhardt; Writer: Carsten Gebhardt; Stars: Zoe Naumann, Peter Moltzen, Peter Kurth, Marko Dyrlich, Alexander Hochst, Marcel Klose, Barbara Ansorg, Carola Sigg)
World Premiere
Boutefeu's wonderful acting paints a vivid portrait.
(Country: France; Year: 2005; Director: Jérôme Bonnell; Writer: Jérôme Bonnell; Stars: Nathalie Boutefeu, Marc Citti, Judith Rémy, Lars Rudolph, Olivier Rabourdin, Paulette Dubost, Eric Bonicatto, Grégory Gadebois, Galatéa Bellugi, Benjamin Egner, Agathe Dronne)
UK Premiere
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