Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2014
Latest works by auteurs from across the globe.
21 films · 14 reviews
Family ties and the way that the past can affect the present are playfully - and sometimes poignantly - explored.
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2014; Director: Pang Ho-Cheung; Writer: Pang Ho-Cheung; Stars: Miriam Yeung, Louis Koo, Gigi Leung, Eris Tsang, Ng Man-tat, Carrie Ng)
UK premiere
(Country: Denmark, China, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Andreas Johnsen; Writer: Andreas Johnsen)
The heart of Gitai's film is in the right place but the script runs off at the mouth.
(Country: France, Israel; Year: 2013; Director: Amos Gitai; Writer: Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme; Stars: Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler, Assi Levy, Uri Gavriel, Norman Issa, Shady Srour)
UK premiere
Worthy, entertaining, but suffers in places from heavy-handedness.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Gillies MacKinnon; Writer: Ian Kershaw; Stars: Eddie Izzard, Karl Davies, Laura Fraser, Julian Rhind-Tutt, David Hayman, Alex Jennings, Celyn Jones, Iain McKee, Lesley Harcourt, Joe Bone)
World premiere
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz; Writer: Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, Margreth Olin)
UK premiere
With the pacing so glacial, the predictable story is likely to prove fatal for all but the most patient viewers.
(Country: Taiwan, Myanmar; Year: 2014; Director: Midi Z; Writer: Midi Z; Stars: Wang Shin-Hong, Wu Ke-Xi)
UK premiere
(Country: Turkey, Greece, Germany, France; Year: 2014; Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu; Writer: Tayfun Pirselimoglu; Stars: Riza Akin, Nihat Alptekin, Mehmet Avci, Ercan Kesal, Maryam Zaree)
UK premiere
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: Vítor Gonçalves; Writer: Mónica Santana Baptista, Vítor Gonçalves, Jorge Braz Santos; Stars: Filipe Duarte, João Perry, Maria João Pinho, Pedro Lamares, Susana Arrais, Maria Ana Bernauer)
UK premiere
The neat trick of Aakeson and Moland is to balance the humour with unexpected moments of poignancy and humanity as fathers from both sides of the criminal tracks share the common ground of parenthood.
(Country: Norway; Year: 2014; Director: Hans Petter Moland; Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson; Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Kristofer Hivju, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Jakob Oftebro, Pål Sverre Hagen, Sergej Trifunovic, Tobias Santelmann, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Stig Henrik Hoff, Arthur Berning, Atle Antonsen, Goran Navojec, Jon Øigarden, David Sakurai)
UK premiere
You should be puzzled.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Michel Gondry; Writer: Michel Gondry; Stars: Michel Gondry, Noam Chomsky)
UK premiere
A meditative miniature of hypnotic grace.
(Country: France, Taiwan; Year: 2014; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Stars: Lee Kang-sheng, Denis Lavant)
UK premiere
Côté deliberately refuses to manufacture a conclusion, leaving it to us to make of it what we will.
(Year: 2014; Director: Denis Côté; Stars: Guillaume Tremblay, Emilie Sigouin, Hamidou Savadogo, Ted Pluviose, Cassandre Emmanuel)
(Country: UK, Iran; Year: 2014; Director: Mania Akbari, Mark Cousins; Writer: Mania Akbari, Mark Cousins; Stars: Mark Cousins, Mania Akbari)
World premiere
The end result may look good but it never feels distinctive despite the wealth of talent involved in front of and behind the camera.
(Country: UK, US, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Anton Corbijn; Writer: Andrew Bovell, based on the novel by John le Carré; Stars: Rachel McAdams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl, Nina Hoss, Martin Wuttke, Rainer Bock, Kostja Ullmann, Homayoun Ershadi, Mehdi Dehbi, Vicky Krieps, Charlotte Schwab, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Derya Alabora)
UK premiere
A truly remarkable film.
(Country: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Peter Krüger; Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Wendyam Sawadogo)
UK premiere
Feels more like an exercise in personal therapy than a fully fledged film.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Nils Malmros; Writer: Nils Malmros; Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Helle Fagralid, Ida Dwinger, Kristian Halken, Nicolas Bro, Helle Hertz, Niels Weyde, Søren Pilmark, Mads Hammer Larsen, Anders Brink Madsen, Henrik Vestergaard, Alexandre Willaume, Martha Kjær Danneskjold Rasmussen, Iben Opstrup Wedel, Johanne Holm)
UK premiere
The mix of action and satire also turns it into an absorbing hell of a ride.
(Country: South Korea, US, France; Year: 2013; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Masterson, based on the story by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, Jean-Marc Rochette; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, Luke Pasqualino, John Hurt, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Alison Pill, Ed Harris, Ewen Bremner, Song Kang-ho, Kenny Doughty, Steve Park, Adnan Haskovic, Clark Middleton, Tómas Lemarquis)
UK premiere
(Country: France, Taiwan; Year: 2013; Director: Ming-liang Tsai; Writer: Peng Fei Song, Ming-liang Tsai, Chen Yu Tung; Stars: Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi Cheng Lee, Yi Chieh Lee, Yi Ching Lu)
UK premiere
(Country: Japan, France, Hong Kong; Year: 2013; Director: Bing Wang)
UK premiere
The act of revenge here is presented not as an outlet for anger but as one of desperation, an emotion that runs through the film.
(Country: Chile, France; Year: 2014; Director: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras; Writer: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras; Stars: Daniel Candia, Daniel Antivilo, Alejandra Yañez, Ariel Mateluna)
UK premiere
Brings a sense of immediacy to events now far away in time.
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: Joaquim Pinto; Stars: Joaquim Pinto)
UK premiere
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