Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2009
Red carpet action, sees the stars hit town.
16 films · 13 reviews
Rose Byrne just gets better and better.
(Year: 2009; Director: Max Mayer; Writer: Max Mayer; Stars: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison, Mark Linn-Baker) , Official site , Trailer
Closing Night Gala. International Premiere
Once they hit the road, the script goes away with the pixies.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2009; Director: Sam Mendes; Writer: Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida; Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, John Krasinski, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Paul Schneider, Catherine O'Hara, Maya Rudolph, Chris Messina, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Hamilton, Shirley Rumierk, Carmen Ejogo, Steve Antonucci, Carrie Clifford) , Official site
Opening Night Gala. International Premiere
Inevitably, with its story purporting to follow one chick as she grows, there are Disney elements here but it could be argued that this sort of poetic anthropomorphism makes the film more accessible to a family audience.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2008; Director: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward; Writer: Melanie Finn) , Official site , Trailer
UK Premiere
As polished all-round entertainment, this film is fairly hard to beat.
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Rémi Bezançon; Writer: Rémi Bezançon; Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François, Marc-André Grondin, Pio Marmaï, Roger Dumas, Cécile Cassel, Stanley Weber, Sarah Cohen-Hadria, Camille De Pazzis, Aymeric Cormerais, Jean-Jacques Vanier, Philippe Lefebvre, François-Xavier Demaison, Gilles Lellouche)
UK Premiere
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jonathon Clayton; Writer: Andrew Clarke, Jonathon Clayton; Stars: Robin Kirwan, James Nield, Lucy Drive, Chantelle Clements-Marsden, Jonathon Clayton, Andrew Clarke)
European Premiere
The characters of the animals are underdeveloped and the film is ultimately bland.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier; Writer: Yoni Brenner, based on a story by Jason Carter Eaton; Stars: Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Joey King, Josh Peck, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano, Atticus Shaffer, Chris Wedge, Karen Disher) , Official site , Trailer
Presented in digital 3D
A light-hearted caper that makes for undemanding viewing.
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Peter Hewitt; Stars: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H Macy, Marcia Gay Harden, Breckin Meyer, Phil Hebert)
International Premiere
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Jean-Francois Richet; Stars: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gerard Lanvin)
UK Premiere
Exquisite attention to detail that creates not only a complex portrait of each of the main characters but also a vivid sense of place.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Adam Elliot; Writer: Adam Elliot; Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth) , Official site
The raw energy that Cassel brought to his role in La Haine has been harnessed again.
(Country: France, Canada, Italy; Year: 2008; Director: Jean-Francois Richet; Writer: Jacques Mesrine, Abdel Raouf Dafri; Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cecile De France, Gerard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis) , Official site , Trailer
UK Premiere
Wry, funny and emotionally-charged.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Rebecca Miller; Writer: Rebecca Miller; Stars: Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore, Blake Lively, Winona Ryder, Monica Bellucci, Robin Wright Penn, Maria Bello, Alan Arkin, Robin Weigert, Zoe Kazan) , Official site , Trailer
UK Premiere
Bernal and Luna bring the same casual and endearing spontaneity they showed in Y Tu Mama Tambien to the fore again here.
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Carlos Cuarón; Writer: Carlos Cuarón; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella, Dolores Heredia, Adriana Paz, Jessica Mas, Salvador Zerboni, Tania Esmeralda Aguilar, Joaquín Cosio, Alfredo Alfonso, Fermín Martínez, Eduardo Von, Jorge Zárate, Axel Ricco, Harold Torres) , Official site , Trailer
UK Premiere
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: David Mackenzie; Writer: Jason Dean Hall, Paul Kolsby; Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Maria Conchita Alonso, Sonia Rockwell, Hart Bochner, Sarah Buxton, Dani Levine, Derek Carter, Shane Brolly, Peter Marc Jacobson)
International Premiere
Captivatingly creative but over-fussy in terms of story, this is still an entertaining and accomplished debut.
(Country: Belgium, Ireland, France; Year: 2009; Director: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey; Writer: Tomm Moore, Fabrice Ziolkowski; Stars: Evan McGuire, Mick Lally, Brendan Gleeson, Christen Mooney)
UK Premiere
A disarmingly and deliciously unexpected celebration of matriarchs with attitude.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: RJ Cutler) , Official site , Trailer
International Premiere
The overall effect is touching without being sentimental.
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2008; Director: Martin Provost; Writer: Marc Abdelnour, Martin Provost; Stars: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich, Adélaïde Leroux, Nico Rogner, Françoise Lebrun, Hélène Hardouin, Serge Larivière, Léna Breban, Sandrine Bodenes, Muriel Riou, Dominique Pozzetto, Josette Ménard, Xavier Pottier)
UK Premiere
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