Glasgow Film Festival · 2013
15 films · 15 reviews
Richard Gere is getting better with age. The lived-in look suits him and he holds this film tight.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Nicholas Jarecki; Writer: Nicholas Jarecki; Stars: Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Susan Sarandon, Monica Raymund, William Friedkin, Laetitia Casta, Josh Pais, Stuart Margolin, Evelina Oboza, Bruce Altman, Chris Eigeman, Nate Parker, Paula Devicq, Angel Picard-Ami) , Trailer
This is a film that will be enjoyed most by people who haven't seen many other films.
(Country: Germany, US, Hong Kong, Singapore; Year: 2012; Director: Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski; Writer: Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, based on the novel by David Mitchell; Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Bae Doona, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, James D'Arcy, Xun Zhou, David Gyasi, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Robert Fyfe, Martin Wuttke) , Trailer
Ozon loves to let his audience's perceptions clash.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon, based on the play by Juan Mayorga; Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-François Balmer, Ernst Umhauer, Diana Stewart, Fabrice Colson, Stéphanie Campion, Bastien Ughetto)
Once it has established itself it unfolds with an almost metronomic inevitability, but for all that, for all that, it still satisfies.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Yaron Zilberman; Writer: Seth Grossman, Yaron Zilberman; Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Imogen Poots, Wallace Shawn, Mark Ivanir)
This is a serious and entertaining character study - stripping down the lives of Soho and Raymond - that has the looks and acting talent to win over a crowd.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Michael Winterbottom; Writer: Matt Greenhalgh; Stars: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton, Chris Addison, David Walliams)
Where it would have been easy to soften Lore, Shortland refuses to get sentimental, keeping us hanging on the edge with her as events grow more traumatic.
(Country: Germany, Australia, UK; Year: 2012; Director: Cate Shortland; Writer: Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee, Rachel Seiffert; Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina, Nick Holaschke, Ursina Lardi, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Sven Pippig, Philip Wiegratz, Katrin Pollitt, Hendrik Arnst, Claudia Geisler, Pit Bukowski, Friederike Frerichs)
While there are plenty of lush gothic flourishes, there are also too many ridiculous horror tropes, but the quality of the acting - especially from child leads Megan Charpenter and Isabelle Nelisse - leads to several genuinely emotional scenes that distin
(Country: Spain, Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Andrés Muschietti; Writer: Neil Cross, Andrés Muschietti; Stars: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Jane Moffat)
An emotionally complex and moving tale that more than justifies itself.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Joss Whedon; Writer: Joss Whedon, based on the play by William Shakespeare.; Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Reed Diamond, Ashley Johnson, Spencer Treat Clark)
Populaire benefits from a savvy script with multi-layered humour and from superb work by its stars.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Régis Roinsard; Writer: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley; Stars: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo, Shaun Benson, Mélanie Bernier, Nicolas Bedos, Miou-Miou)
Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, tells stories of fatherhood with a fine-tuned generosity, as haunted men cycle through patterns spinning out of control.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Derek Cianfrance; Writer: Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio; Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne, Ray Liotta, Emory Cohen, Dane DeHaan)
Jake Schreier and scriptwriter Christopher Ford go well beyond the initial fun of the robot conceit to craft a thoughtful film musing on both the ageing process and our relationship with technology.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jake Schreier; Writer: Christopher D Ford; Stars: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong, Katherine Waterston, Bonnie Bentley, Joshua Ormond, Dario Barosso, Rachael Ma, Dana Morgan, Hunter Reid, Jesse Newman)
Soderbergh, just as he did with his 2011 film Contagion shows that the disaster you expected safely elsewhere, is right in front of you.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: Scott Z Burns; Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Polly Draper )
Most real, and at once divine, are the scenes in nature.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas; Stars: Lola Créton, Dolores Chaplin, India Menuez, Carole Combes, Clement Metayer, Victoria Ley, Felix Armand, Nathanjohn Carter, Mathias Renou, Nick Donald, Félix de Givry)
The heightened sense of India's reality is mimicked by Park's style and Miller's creations, who are pushed into the realm of melodrama and perilously close to caricature in pursuit of gothic thrills.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Wentworth Miller; Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, Nicole Kidman)
This fine array of actors is charged with safeguarding a plot as weak and confused as a newborn kitten.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2013; Director: Eran Creevy; Writer: Eran Creevy; Stars: James McAvoy, Mark Strong, David Morrissey, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan)
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