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Glasgow Film Festival · 2013

Glasgow Film Festival 2013

Crossing The Line

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6 films · 2 reviews

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Breaking The Frame

A documentary porrait of an artist whose work focuses on the body, sexuality and gender.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Marielle Nitoslawska; Writer: Marielle Nitoslawska; Stars: Carolee Schneemann)

The Legend Of Kaspar Hausar (La Leggenda Di Kaspar Hauser)

The legendary Bavarian wild boy, reincarnated as an androgynous raver, challenges a troubled empress, a sheriff and a mysterious drug dealer.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Davide Manuli; Writer: Davide Manuli; Stars: Silvia Calderoni, Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini, Elisa Sednaoui, Fabrizio Gifuni, Marco Lampis)

Margaret Tait, Film Poet

Review preview for Margaret Tait, Film Poet

A must-see film for fans.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
A documentary looking back at the life and work of the acclaimed Orcadian creative artist.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Marissa Keating, Michael Thomas Jones)

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Mekong Hotel

A film director's study of a vampiric mother and daughter veers between fact and fiction.

(Country: Thailand, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Maiyatam Techapam, Sakda Kaewbuadee)

Museum Hours

Review preview for Museum Hours

This goes on for more than two hours and will bore some viewers to death. Others, though, will find this quiet, complex film a fascinating piece of art in itself.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A museum attendant shows a Canadian visitor the sights of Vienna and in the process falls in love with it all over again.

(Country: Austria, US; Year: 2012; Director: Jem Cohen; Writer: Jem Cohen; Stars: Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits)

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Staande! Debout!

A fictionalised take on real life events following a car factory closure, as the years drift by and its former employees still can't find work.

(Country: Belgum, Germany, Finland; Year: 2013; Director: Anu Pennanen, Stephane Querrec)