Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2013
12 films · 10 reviews
A frequently comic script is enhanced by the naturalism with which all the actors deliver their lines.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Jamie Chambers; Stars: Andrew Rothney, Scarlett Mack, Patrick Wallace, Sheila Stewart, Norman Maclean, Margaret Bennett)
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Matt Hulse; Stars: Samuel Dore, Marie Denarnaud, Robert Stephen, Annie Buchan, James Buchan, Melvin Bryce, Graeme Noble, Jeni Reid, Magnus, Tippy and the Community of Invercairn)
The film works as a marriage between the sometimes absurd scripting and the skilfully understated acting.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Jones; Stars: Nora Tschirner, Rob Knighton, Kellie Shirley, Madeline Duggan, Stirling Gallacher) , Trailer
Falls just shy of a state of perfection.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Paul Wright; Writer: Paul Wright; Stars: George MacKay, Kate Dickie, Brian McCardie, Conor McCarron)
An awe-inspiring experience.
(Country: France, UK, US; Year: 2012; Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel; Writer: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel; Stars: Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guillette, Brian Jannelle, Clyde Lee, Arthur Smith, Christopher Swampstead)
The film never goes anywhere, never develops any conflict and never feels believable.
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2013; Director: Virginia Gilbert; Writer: Virginia Gilbert; Stars: James Fox, Natalie Dormer, Paul Nicholls, Brenda Fricker, Betty Krestinsky, Brian Gilbert, Catriona McColl, Isalinde Giovangigli, Julien Masdoua, Collin Hill, Frédéric Largier)
If ever a film deserved the adjective elegiac, Mister John is it.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor; Writer: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy; Stars: Aidan Gillen, Claire Keelan, Zoe Tay, Michael Thomas)
If there is one positive thing that can be said about the film it is that it lives up to the promise of its title.
(Year: 2013; Director: John McKay; Writer: David Solomons; Stars: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, Amy Manson, Iain De Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis, Henry Ian Cusick)
For all its visual skill and mostly good performances, this is a tiresome, dull film.
(Year: 2013; Director: Stephen Brown; Writer: John Banville; Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Bonnie Wright, Sinéad Cusack)
The film began as a series of web shorts and that episodic hit and miss nature endures.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: John Hardwick; Writer: Jonny Owen ; Stars: Jonny Owen, Vicky McClure, Roger Evans, Martin Freeman, Maxine Peake, Michael Socha, Dylan Edwards, Joel Fry, Curtis Lee Thompson, Brian Hibbard, Sharon Morgan, Morwenna Banks)
The film's aware that it's an improbable story, so it does everything in its power to couch it as being based on a true story, but for all that it's ironically unconvincing.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Andrew Douglas; Writer: Mike Walden, based on a story by Fernley Phillips; Stars: Jamie Blackley, Toby Regbo, Joanne Froggatt, Liz White, Jaime Winstone, Mark Womack, Louise Delamere, Amy Wren, James Burrows, Stephanie Leonidas)
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Justin Edgar; Stars: Michael Smiley, Jamie Blackley, Sean Teale, Mike Bailey, Rosamund Hanson)
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