Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2013
23 films · 19 reviews
The depiction of this generation whose boats have not been lifted by China's economic tide seems a fair one.
(Country: China; Year: 2012; Director: Zhang Yuan; Writer: Zhang Yuan; Stars: Duan Bowen, Lu Yulai, Shi Shi, Li Xinyun, Han Wenwen)
Serebrennikov's film may be sometimes confusing, sometimes confounding and somewhat disappointing in the neatness of its ending, but there's no denying his talent.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2012; Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Writer: Kirill Serebrennikov, Natalia Nazarova; Stars: Franziska Petri, Dejan Lilic, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Arturs Skrastins, Andrei Shchetinin, Guna Zarina)
(Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer; Stars: Susumu Shingu, Yasuko Shingu)
If you didn't know this film was made in North Korea, you could be forgiven for thinking it is a South Korean parody of a propaganda movie.
(Country: Belgium, UK, North Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Kim Gwang-hun; Stars: Han Jong-sim, Pak Chung-guk, Ri Yong-ho, Kim Son-nam, Han Kil-myong, An Chang-sun, Ri Ik-sung, Kim Un-yong)
It's a film that's full of visual life, amid the arid, hard surroundings.
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2012; Director: Dervis Zaim; Stars: Ali Özel, Mustafa Salman, Ramazan Bayar)
A superior sense of place and editorial timing lends the Breki's disaster urgency, tension and terror.
(Country: Iceland, Norway; Year: 2012; Director: Baltasar Kormákur; Writer: Jón Atli Jónasson, Baltasar Kormákur; Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir, Theodór Júlíusson, María Sigurðardóttir, Björn Thors, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Guðjón Pedersen, Walter Grímsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Bjarni Gautur, Terry Gunnell, Rúnar Guðbrandsson, Bjartur Guðmundsson, Kristján Franklin Magnúss)
There is talk of his reaching a "transcendent place of nothingness", but this is not tranquil, this fading - it is distressing, discomfiting.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Alan Berliner)
It's an intimate, focused look on an unhappy family - but can only tell half of its story.
(Year: 2012; Director: Mania Akbari; Stars: Bijan Daneshmand, Neda Amiri, Elahe Hesari, Mania Akbari)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Thomas Arslan; Writer: Thomas Arslan; Stars: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth)
Though each filmmaker provides typical servings of his own respective style in responding to the brief at hand, this portmanteau piece is predictably uneven.
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2012; Director: Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira; Writer: Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira; Stars: Ilkka Koivula, Ventura, António Santos, Manuel 'Tito' Furtado, Valdemar Santos, Amândio Martins, Henriqueta Oliveira, Ricardo Trêpa)
João Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro Rodriguez’s film is a seamless and absorbing blend of essay film and hardboiled thriller.
(Country: France, Portugal, Macao; Year: 2012; Director: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata; Writer: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata; Stars: João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Cindy Scrash)
Those who like films to start at A, proceed through B and end at C will find Torres' multi-layered, cluttered narrative difficult to contend with but those that prefer to disappear into a film without a road map will find plenty to enjoy.
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2013; Director: John Torres; Stars: Cheeno Ladera Dalog, Edilberto Marcelino, Tao Aves)
Cheang brings a gritty aesthetic to bear, more interested than smoke and sparks than sleek set pieces.
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2012; Director: Pou-Soi Cheang; Stars: Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong, Xiaodong Guo) , Trailer
The film takes great joy in two old men poring over family connections and the past.
(Country: France, Israel, Switzerland; Year: 2012; Director: Avi Mograbi)
Barreto's film is a stylish feast for the eyes, registering the nuances of the 50s turning into the 60s.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2013; Director: Bruno Barreto; Stars: Miranda Otto, Gloria Pires, Tracy Middendorf, Treat Williams) , Trailer
(Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Dibakar Banerjee; Stars: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Kalki Koechlin, Supriya Pathak Kapur, Tillotama Shome, Anant Jouge, Pitobash, Farooque Shaikh)
What is not in doubt is the raw emotion in this work - from Polley quivering with nervous energy as she watches her father read some of the more revelatory pieces of script - to the visible impact airing the family's dirty linen in public has on her sibli
(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Sarah Polley; Writer: Sarah Polley, Michael Polley; Stars: Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley, Cathy Gulkin, Marie Murphy, Robert MacMillan, Anne Tait, Deirdre Bowen, Victoria Mitchell, Mort Ransen, Geoffrey Bowes, Tom Butler)
Wang is matter-of-fact in his presentation of these quiet dramas.
(Country: France, Hong Kong; Year: 2012; Director: Wang Bing)
(Director: Wojtek Smarzowski; Stars: Bart?omiej Topa, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Julia Kijowska, Eryk Lubos, Robert Wabich, Marcin Dorociski, Jacek Braciak)
Being disorientated is part of the game of art - from William Shakespeare to the present.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: María Villar, Romina Paula, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo, Esteban Bigliardi)
Manning's real life sacrifices and internal torment are the beating heart of the film.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Alex Gibney; Writer: Alex Gibney; Stars: John 'FuzzFace' McMahon, Alex Gibney, Julian Assange, Robert Manne, Heather Brooke, Michael Hayden, J. William Leonard, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Smári McCarthy, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Adrian Lamo, Timothy Douglas Webster, Chelsea Manning, Jason Edwards, Nick)
Nai puts in an understated performance as Wang, but Ying coats many of the scenes in heavy symbolism.
(Country: South Korea, China; Year: 2012; Director: Ying Liang; Writer: Ying Liang; Stars: Nai An, Kate Wen, Sun Ming)
Grandrieux’s view appears to be a cold and harsh one.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Philippe Grandrieux; Stars: Hélène Rocheteau, Jean-Nicolas Dafflon, Anja Röttgerkamp, Dominique Dupuy)
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