Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2007
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21 films · 18 reviews
Simple and meditative cinema.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Takushi Tsubokawa ; Writer: Takushi Tsubokawa ; Stars: Masayuki Shionoya , Mariko Takahashi, Shojiro Kataoka, Masao Komatsu, Shimon Yotsuya, Shinichiro Uchida, Toshiyuki Kita, Koji Wakamatsu, Hideko Yoshida, Mickey Curtis)
(Country: Germany; Director: Felicitas Kornn; Stars: Henriette Heinze, Golo Euler, Sabine Bach, Patrick Gldenberg, Jrgen Lehmann, Claire Oelkers, Omar Fakhr, Kamary Phillips, Stefan Lehnen, Eva Maria Warth)
(Country: France; Director: Julie Gavras)
Once again Li Yang, has directed a fascinating portrayal of the contradictions inherent in the world’s fastest growing economy.
(Country: Germany, Hong Kong, China ; Year: 2007; Director: Li Yang ; Writer: Li Yang ; Stars: Lu Huang, Youan Yang, Yuling Zhang, He Yunle, Jia Yinggao)
This is not a very nuanced view of the situation, but it really doesn’t pretend to be.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2006; Director: Krisztina Goda; Writer: Joe Eszterhas, Éva Gárdos; Stars: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyö, Sándor Csányi, Károly Gesztesi, Ildikó Bánsági, Tamás Jordán) , Official site , Trailer
As gratuitous and confrontational a story as you’re likely to come across.
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2007; Director: Koen Mortier; Writer: Koen Mortier, based on the book by Herman Brusselmans; Stars: Dries Vanhegen, Norman Baert, Sam Louwyck, Gunter Lamoot)
The water rippling around the village mirrors the ebb and flow of relationships within Salif Traoré’s film.
(Country: France, Canada, Mali, Burkina Faso, Germany; Year: 2007; Director: Salif Traoré; Writer: Olivier Lorelle, Salif Traoré ; Stars: Fili Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Michel Mpambara, Habib Dembele, Helene M Diarra, Rokia Traoré)
A poetic and almost philosophical reflection on the restlessness of city life.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2006; Director: Catherine Martin; Writer: Catherine Martin; Stars: Hélène Florent, Robert Lepage, Ève Duranceau,Hélène Loiselle, Markita Boies, Pierre Collin, Béatrice Picard)
It is hard-hitting, but with none of the fake, over-the-top violence of Hollywood fare, and packs an emotional punch without dredging it with sugar.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2005; Director: Andrei Kravchuk; Writer: Andrei Romanov; Stars: Kolya Spiridonov, Denis Moiseenko, Polina Vorobieva, Mariya Kuznetsova, Yuri Itskov, Sasha Sirotkin, Dariya Lesnikova, Andrei Yelizarov, Vladimir Shipov, Olga Shuvalova, Dima Zemlyanko, Nikolai Reutov,) , Official site
The characters are like people whom someone let out of Tarantino's locked cellar.
(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Martine Doyen; Writer: Martine Doyen, Valérie Lemaître; Stars: Arno Hintjens, Valérie Lemaître, Edith Scob)
Mészáros seems to knows his stuff when it comes to art, and has shaped a clever reflection of his rococo painter's theme.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2006; Director: Péter Mészáros; Writer: Péter Mészáros; Stars: Kata Kovács, András Tóth, Nikolett Krajcsi, Petronella Tóth, Balázs Bodolai)
By comprimising his film to bring the characters together, and yet failing to inject the irony or imagery of a director such as Jodowrosky, this falls short.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2006; Director: Roh Gyeong-tae; Writer: Roh Gyeong-tae; Stars: Baek Hyun-joo, Kim Do-yeon, Oh Heoung-ki, Hong Suk-yeon, Hwang Bok-soon)
Many comparisons have been made to Charlie Kaufman and rightly so.
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Kirt Gunn; Writer: Kirt Gunn; Stars: Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Austin Pendleton, Dallas Roberts, Reg Rogers, Kate Burton, Richard Masur, Lena Lamer, Jimmy Crothswait, Glenn Fitzgerald, Boyd Gaines, Ron Gephart)
This is one of those films I will tell all my friends they MUST see, especially if they’ve been having a bad year.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2006; Director: Darren Ashton; Writer: Carolyn Wilson, Robin Ince; Stars: Kerry Armstrong, Ben Miller, Nadine Garner, Denise Roberts, Tara Morice, Jane Hall, Toni Lamond, Barry Crocker, Noeline Brown, Scott Irwin, Damon Gameau) , Official site
What makes Rocket Science endearing will doubtless make it infuriating to some, but those that could like it will like it a lot.
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Jeffrey Blitz; Writer: Jeffrey Blitz; Stars: Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Vincent Piazza, Margo Martindale) , Trailer
Riza is an interesting character study in which badness takes on a worryingly ambiguous mantle. Its merit is the ambiguous questions and awkward character study it presents.
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2007; Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu; Writer: Tayfun Pirselimoglu; Stars: Melissa Ahmedi, Riza Akin, Emin Bas, Muhammed Cangören, Gürbüz Demir, Melih Duzenli, Nurcan Eren, Hayati Pirselimoglu, Fatih Sevildi, Turgay Tan)
(Country: US; Director: Monty Miranda)
La Soledad hinges on a central conceit that weighs heavily, but if it can be accepted it is the key to a work of staggering power.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2007; Director: Jaime Rosales; Writer: Jaime Rosales, Enric Rufas; Stars: Sonia Almarcha, Petra Martínez, Jesús Cracio, Miriam Correa)
Studied long shots of a factory, belching smoke into a grey sky, and the desolate waste ground of land grown tired of ruin have a poetic lyricism that leaches into the body of the film.
(Country: China/Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Li Jixian; Writer: Li Jixian, Li Wei; Stars: Li Jie, Shen Jiani, Zhang Deng Feng, Yang Xin)
Darin... again proves that he can break your heart with a look, conveying unspoken emotion with a glance that taps you into his pain.
(Country: Argentina, France, Spain; Year: 2007; Director: Lucía Puenzo; Writer: Lucía Puenzo; Stars: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Martín Piroyansky, Germán Palacios, Lucas Escariz, Luciano Nóbile, Carolina Pelleritti)
Fear festers like the cut of a rusty scythe.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2006; Director: Rafa Cortes; Writer: Alex Brendemuhl, Rafa Cortes; Stars: Alex Brendemuhl, Margalida Grimalt, Rafel Ramis, Heinz Hoenig, Maria Lanau, Aina de Cos, Manuel Barcelo, Holger Petzold, Carme Feliu)
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