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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2019

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

Night Moves

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6 films · 5 reviews

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Body At Brighton Rock

Wendy, a part-time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she's capable enough to do the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon what might be a potential crime scene - which she is then asked to guard overnight.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Roxanne Benjamin; Writer: Roxanne Benjamin; Stars: Karina Fontes, Casey Adams, Emily Althaus)

UK premiere

Darlin'

Review preview for Darlin'

Lauryn Canny is stunning in the central role, easily adopting the same body language that Mcintosh has used continually to break away from conditioned patterns of movement and take up space.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A sequel to The Woman in which a feral teenage girl is taken into strict Catholic care and prepared for her First Holy Communion.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Pollyanna McIntosh; Writer: Pollyanna McIntosh, Jack Ketchum; Stars: Pollyanna McIntosh, Cooper Andrews, Nora-Jane Noone, Eugenie Bondurant, Brian Batt, Lauren Ashley Carter)

Full review See: Interview with Pollyanna McIntosh about Darlin

UK premiere

Ever After (Endzeit)

Review preview for Ever After

Given a magical quality by director Carolina Hellsgård's distinctive shooting style and Leah Striker's luminous cinematography, this is a world that seems full of new possibilities.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two years after a zombie apocalypse, two women set off on a long journey in search of a safe haven.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Carolina Hellsgård; Writer: Olivia Vieweg; Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Yûho Yamashita, Barbara Philipp)

Full review See: Interview with Carolina Hellsgård about Ever After (Endzeit)

UK premiere

The Furies

Review preview for The Furies

There's not a great deal of strategy involved in Tony D'Aquino's film, which mostly concerns itself with bloody violence, screaming and running about.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
Two women and one wakes to find herself playing a deadly game of cat and mouse.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2019; Director: Tony D'Aquino; Writer: Tony D'Aquino; Stars: Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo, Taylor Ferguson, Ebony Vagulans, Danielle Horvat, Tom O'Sullivan, Jessica Baker, Kaitlyn Boyé, Harriet Davies, Steve Morris, Ben Toyer, Leon Stripp, Dean Gould, Brendan Kelly, Tim Stiles)

Full review

UK premiere

The Wind

Review preview for The Wind

Teresa Sutherland's script finds Gothic tensions in a landscape where the imaginary has as much power to harm as the real.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
On the Western frontier of the United States of America in the late 1800s, a plains-woman is driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Emma Tammi; Writer: Teresa Sutherland; Stars: Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles)

Full review

UK premiere

The Woman

Review preview for The Woman

Horror film of the year so far, and likely to be one of the most memorable and celebrated of the coming decade.

David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
A successful country lawyer captures and attempts to 'civilise' a woman he finds in the woods.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Lucky McKee; Writer: Lucky McKee, based on the book by Jack Ketchum; Stars: Angela Bettis, Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers, Marcia Bennett, Carlee Baker, Lauren Ashley Carter, Tommy Nelson, Frank Olsen, Zack Rand, Chris Krzykowski, Shana Barry) , Official site , Trailer

Full review See: Interview with Pollyanna McIntosh about The Woman