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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2010

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010

British Gala

The highest percentage of world premieres in the whole festival. See future British classics here first at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Programme

10 films · 10 reviews

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brilliantlove (The Orgasm Diaries)

Review preview for brilliantlove

Brilliantlove falls hard on its bare backside between the two stools of pornography and erotica.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
A hot summer of young love.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Ashley Horner; Writer: Sean Conway; Stars: Nancy Trotter Landry, Liam Browne, Jack Dawson, Jessica Appleby, Stephen Beardsley, Mike Elliott, Michael Hodgson, Arabella Arnott, Stephen Bent, John McMahon, Wendy Newman, Tony Danks, Cliff Burnett, Brian Hutchinson, Brian Rush)

Full review See: Tribeca diary and capsule reviews: Legacy, My Brothers, Zonad, Brilliantlove

Cherry Tree Lane

Review preview for Cherry Tree Lane

It boils down to an exercise in horror and endurance. It's rare you see a film which will elicit such a guttural reaction from its audience

James Benefield · 4 out of 5
Urban horror about a culture-clash between an upper-crust couple, and trouble with local boys.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Paul Andrew Williams; Writer: Paul Andrew Williams; Stars: Rachael Blake, Jennie Jacques, Tom Butcher, Sonny Muslim, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin, Kieran Dooner, Corinne Douglas)

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Huge

Review preview for Huge

This should have been an insider’s guide to laughter. It isn’t.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
The long, low road to failure on the stand-up comedy circuit.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Ben Miller; Writer: Ben Miller, Simon Godley, based on the play by Ben Miller, Simon Godley and Jez Butterworth; Stars: Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Oliver Chris, Michelle Ryan, Tamsin Egerton, Thandie Newton)

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Jackboots On Whitehall

Review preview for Jackboots On Whitehall

Jackboots On Whitehall isn't afraid of stomping on a few tender sensibilities and its smut level is set to 'stun'.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Animated re-imaginging of a German invasion during the Second World War

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry; Writer: Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming, Dominic West, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Richard Griffiths, Richard O'Brien, Pam Ferris, Neil Newbon, Tobias Menzies, Stephen Merchant, Hugh Fraser)

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The Kid

Review preview for The Kid

Ultimately more heart-warming and life-affirming than you would ever imagine a film centred on casual violence could be.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Adaptation of Kevin Lewis' autobiography of the same name.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Nick Moran; Writer: Kevin Lewis, Nick Moran, Mark Thomas; Stars: Rupert Friend, Ioan Gruffudd, Natascha McElhone, David O'Hara, Bernard Hill, James Fox, Kate Ashfield, Jodie Whittaker, Ralph Brown, Augustus Prew, Alfie Allen, Tom Burke, Oliver Milburn, Shirley Anne Field, Niamh Cusack)

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Mr Nice

Review preview for Mr Nice

This made me proud that Britain can turn out solid, constructive comedy.

Chris · 4 out of 5
Rhys Ifans stars in a crazed biopic of factotum Howard Marks.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Bernard Rose; Writer: Bernard Rose; Stars: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Elsa Pataky, Andrew Tiernan, Omid Djalili, Jack Huston, Ania Sowinski, Jamie Harris, Christian McKay, Kinsey Packard, Ken Russell, Craig Stevenson, Luis Tosar, Ricardo Birnbaum)

Full review See: Rhys Ifans, Bernard Rose and Howard Marks talk at Mr Nice European Premiere

Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World

Review preview for Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World

That it comes so close to being fair, to being true, is to its credit.

Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
A man with a passion for astrophysics experiences a schizophrenic break after suffering a bereavement.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Viv Fongenie; Writer: Viv Fongenie; Stars: Edward Hogg, Andrew Knott, Jodie Whittaker, Cathy Tyson, Simon Paris)

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Pelican Blood

Review preview for Pelican Blood

This film is fast and funky and deadly serious, and massively flawed, yet just about succeeds in its difficult central premise.

Chris · 4 out of 5
A passionate romance between two young people planning to end their own lives.

(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Karl Golden; Writer: Cris Cole; Stars: Arthur Darvill, Emma Booth, Harry Treadaway, Christopher Fulford, Oona Chaplin, Emma Clifford, George Newton, Eden Watson, David Ross Elliott, John McDonnell, Ali Craig, Daniel Hawksford, Babatunde Aleshe)

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Skeletons

Review preview for Skeletons

An intriguing, well-acted, quietly funny film that, though it is outright weird most of the time and certainly won't be to everyone's taste, has a quirky charm and emotional heart.

Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
Black comedy about a two-man emotional exterminator team.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Nick Whitfield; Writer: Nick Whitfield; Stars: Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, Paul Dallison, Jace Desay, Jason Isaacs, Tuppence Middleton, Paprika Steen, Josef Whitfield) , Official site

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SoulBoy

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Ultimately, SoulBoy is a strange, lifeless work.

Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
A coming-of-age tale mixed in with the genesis of Northern Soul.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Shimmy Marcus; Writer: Jeff Williams; Stars: Martin Compston, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen, Nichola Burley, Craig Parkinson, Brian McCardie, Jo Hartley, Pat Shortt, Huey Morgan, Bill Fellows, Bernard Wrigley, Brennan Reece, Samantha Jordanne Reid, Andy Jones, Rhys Smith)

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