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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2012

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012

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5 films · 4 reviews

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Amateur

Factotum makes mini-epic movies.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2011; Director: Néstor Frenkel)

El Casamiento

Review preview for El Casamiento

The film observes various individual slices of their lives, some of which are adorable, many dull.

Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
An elderly couple look forward to their wedding, made possible by Uruguay's changing attitude to gender recognition.

(Country: Uruguay, Argentina; Year: 2011; Director: Aldo Garay)

Los Marziano

Review preview for Los Marziano

Half-formed ideas about the nature of family and responsibility can be glimpsed but the action ends with a whimper rather than a bang.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
A bittersweet family comedy about two long-estranged brothers and the tense friction arising between them when they’re forced together for a family celebration.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2011; Director: Ana Katz; Writer: Ana Katz, Daniel Katz; Stars: Guillermo Francella, Arturo Puig, Rita Cortese, Mercedes Morán, Claudia Cantero, Facundo Lombard, Martín Lombard, Rebecca Deering, Marcos Montes, Abian Vainstein, Raquel Bank, Daniel Hendler) , Official site

Música Campesina (Country Music)

Review preview for Música Campesina

A fairly standard fish-out-of-water, culture-clash story, albeit with a mumblecore vibe, that has the unfortunate problem of peaking in the middle before gradually losing steam.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
A Chilean tries to find his way in Nashville.

(Country: Chile, US; Year: 2011; Director: Alberto Fuguet; Writer: Alberto Fuguet; Stars: Pablo Cerda, James Cathcart, Cole Kinnear)

Riding Zorro (Montando Al Zorro)

Review preview for Riding Zorro

Impenetrable, muddied, slipshod, and most disappointingly boring.

Andrew Robertson · 1.5 out of 5
Who was that masked horse? This documentary tells a killer's tale.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2011; Director: Juan Ignacio Domínguez)