Edinburgh International Film Festival

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  Modern Life Is Rubbish

  Review preview for Modern Life Is Rubbish

  If you were a fan of Blur, Oasis or Radiohead, there is much here to like and relate to.

  Rom-com sees a couple whose relationship is on the rocks who find a shared love of music makes breaking up hard to do.
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  Have Heart

  Review preview for Have Heart

  A treat to watch.

  A looping GIF has an existential crisis.
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  1945

  Review preview for 1945

  As stark as its empty landscapes, as measured as the tread of the strangers along the poplar avenue, as compelling as the panic that grows in the village ahead of them.

  A Hungarian village becomes a mirror for the failure of an entire society.
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  A Quiet Heart

  Review preview for A Quiet Heart

  It's an amazing piece of work from writer/director Eitan Anner.

  A secular young woman takes an apartment in an Orthodox part of Jerusalem, sparking religious tension.
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  A Heart Of Love

  Review preview for A Heart Of Love

  Statements of fact cannot quite describe the film because it is something beyond text.

  The intimate relationship between two Warsaw artists.
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  Kaleidoscope

  Review preview for Kaleidoscope

  Serious acting, but it becomes something other, something smaller than its stage.

  Psychological thriller sees an ex-con trying to adjust to freedom, whose life is challenged by his controlling mother.
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  The Dark Mile

  Review preview for The Dark Mile

  Watchable, even occasionally thrilling, but The Dark Mile does not shine.

  Two woman book a sailing trip after a personal tragedy... but trouble lurks on the loch.
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  Satan Said Dance

  Review preview for Satan Said Dance

  In this deck of cards with Jokers there are wild moments, enough variety that whatever faces Karolina there is something there in black and red to conjure with.

  After the success of a novel, a woman's life starts to fall apart.
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  Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

  Review preview for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

  Densely packed with information, this is a film that continually finds new things to say and new ways to say them.

  The role of Native Americans in contemporary music history.
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  Clueless

  Review preview for Clueless

  Silverstone immerses herself in the character of Cher.

  A rich high school student tries to give a fellow student a makeover but finds herself falling in love.

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Features

• World of difference
  Writer/producer Alex Lipschultz on the challenges of making Menashe
• Making a box office Attraction
  Fedor Bondarchuk on his science-fiction film
• Into the woods
  Damien Power on the trials and tribulations of making Killing Ground
• Landscape of love
  Director Francis Lee talks about authenticity and emotion in God's Own Country.
• Pastures new
  Alec Secareanu and Josh O'Connor on preparing for God's Own Country.
• Missing voices
  Rachel Robey, Charlie Swinbourne and Aurora Fearnley on the barriers facing disabled filmmakers
• Portrait of an artist
  Dome Karukoski on his biography of influential gay icon Tom Of Finland
• Breaking the mould
  Jackie Clune and Jennifer Joseph on pushing boundaries in Julius Ceasar
• Serious about Caesar
  Karen Dunbar on her role as Casca in Julius Caesar.
• Shaking up Shakespeare
  Director Phyllida Lloyd talks about power, performance and prisons in the all-female Julius Caesar.
• Picturing a life
  Aisling Walsh on Maud Lewis, her home, her paintings and the passing of time.
• Shifting identities
  EIFF's Niall Greig Fulton talks to us about his Brexit-inspired retrospective.
• Meeting Maudie
  Aisling Walsh on working with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, and choosing costumes.
• Teenage kicks
  Director Kuba Czekaj talks about the shooting The Erlprince.
• Keitel - a man for all seasons
  Youth star Harvey on Sorrentino, Campion and Scorsese.
• Past and present success
  Bertrand Tavernier discusses the contemporary aspects of his period drama The Princess Of Montpensier.
• I'll drink to that!
  We raise a glass to a history of alcohol in the movies.

News

• Edinburgh announces retrospective
  Time of the Signs: Chasing the American Zeitgeist puts Seventies and Eighties US cinema in spotlight
• Just Charlie a hit at EIFF
  Transgender drama wins Audience Award
• God's Own Country and Glory are big winners in Edinburgh
  Festival announces award recipients and extra screenings.
• Red carpet rolls out for EIFF's 71st edition
  Stars attend UK premiere of God's Own Country
• EIFF announces full programme
  Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and Stanley Tucci among guests.
• EIFF plans to Play
  Festival launches event cinema strand and celebrates Scottish filmmakers.
• Morrissey biopic to close EIFF
  England is Mine gets world premiere.
• God's Own Country to open EIFF
  Gay romance kicks-off 71st festival.
• EIFF announces free outdoor screenings
  Films include Mamma Mia!, Singin' In The Rain and Dirty Dancing.
• EIFF names first screenwriter-in-residence
  Glasgow-born Krysty Wilson-Cairns receives backing