Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2012
16 films · 14 reviews
An interminable, frustrating film
(Country: China; Year: 2012; Director: Mao Mao; Writer: Mao Mao, Yue Ding; Stars: Huang Tang Yijia, Li Ziqian, Wang Yizheng, Li Wensi, Cai Jiqiu, Yan Jiangou, Zhao Wei, Tian Xiaoyu, Yue Ding, Zhao Li)
Grim and unremitting, it's hard to go the distance.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2011; Director: Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal; Writer: Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal; Stars: Marcin Czarnik, Piotr Nowak, Elzbieta Okupska, Jerzy Lapinski, Hanna Chojnacka, Michal Pietrzak, Oskar Karas, Dawid Wolski, Waldemar Czyszak, Agnieszka Podsiadlik) , Official site
This film efficiently uses animation to produce genuine moments of horror.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2011; Director: Yeon Sang-ho; Writer: Yeon Sang-ho; Stars: Ik-joon Yang, Jeong-se Oh, Hye-na Kim, Kkobbi Kim, Hee-von Park)
Kid-Thing is all about kid-think, with David Zellner keeping his main character's child perspective front and centre at all times.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: David Zellner; Writer: David Zellner; Stars: Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner)
Goes to show that life is often more fascinating than fiction.
(Country: Chile; Year: 2011; Director: Maite Alberdi; Writer: Maite Alberdi, Sebastián Brahm; Stars: Mauricio Rodríguez, Lucas Acuña, Teresa Guerrechea, Jean-Pierre Palacios, Alán Muñoz)
(Country: United States, Switzerland; Year: 2012; Director: Alexandre Philippe; Stars: Paul)
A tight script and convincing performances.
(Country: Iran; Year: 2011; Director: Mania Akbari; Writer: Mania Akbari, Majid Eslami; Stars: Neda Amiri, Payam Dehkordi, Hassan Majooni, Ashkan Mehri, Bahareh Rahnama, Farnaz Rahnama, Ramona Shah)
Although never less than immersive, the documentary suffers from Solnicki's freeform approach, which has a tendency to lack context
(Country: Argentina, USA; Year: 2011; Director: Gastón Solnicki)
It soon becomes clear that it isn’t the destination, and the discovery of Emak Bakia, that is the most interesting thing about the film, but the journey itself.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Oskar Alegria)
It's beautifully executed but in places the act of repetition seems to work against it.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Jang Kun-jae; Writer: Jang Kun-jae; Stars: Kim Soo-hyeon, Kim Ju-Ryoung)
Those looking for drama might be advised to steer clear, but for anyone willing to fall into the film's gentle ruminatory rhythm, it is a visual treat
(Country: Brazil, Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Clarissa Campolina, Helvecio Marins Jr; Writer: Felipe Bragança; Stars: Maria Sebastiana Martins Álvaro, Maria da Conceição Gomes de Moura, Luciene Soares da Silva, Wanderson Soares da Silva)
Sheil is mesmerising.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Amy Seimetz; Writer: Amy Seimetz; Stars: AJ Bowen, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, Kit Gwin)
Director Gomes pays homage to the fantasy of colonial history while subverting it at the same time.
(Country: Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France; Year: 2012; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo; Stars: Teresa Madruga, Isabel Muñoz Cardoso, Carloto Cotta, Ana Moreira, Laura Soveral)
Director Stefano Savona very simply invites us to stand witness.
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2011; Director: Stefano Savona)
Sallitt brings an unusually stringent intellectual level to proceedings that marks his film out from the largely immature field of its peers.
(Country: USA; Year: 2012; Director: Dan Sallitt; Writer: Dan Sallitt; Stars: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares, Kati Schwartz, Caroline Luft, Eleanore Pienta, Colin Summers, Caitlin Mehner, Mike Faist, Liz Toonkel, Jessica Pinfield, Sunita Mani, Kate Lyn Sheil, Gonzalo Cordova, Zelda Knapp)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2011; Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes)
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