Glasgow Film Festival · 2016
18 films · 14 reviews
Mixes observations on capitalism, society and storytelling.
(Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2015; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro; Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Dinarte Branco, Carloto Cotta, Adriano Luz, Rogério Samora, Maria Rueff, Cristina Carvalhal)
Takes a bawdy idea and turns it into something far more complex.
(Country: Greece; Year: 2015; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari; Stars: Sakis Rouvas, Vangelis Mourikis, Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos)
Larraín's judgement when it comes is fiercely Old Testament - harsh, unexpected and fast.
(Country: Chile; Year: 2015; Director: Pablo Larraín; Writer: Guillermo Calderón, Daniel Villalobos; Stars: Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Jaime Vadell, Marcelo Alonso, Jose Soza) , Trailer
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Thomas Bidegain; Writer: Noé Debré; Stars: John C. Reilly, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, François Damiens, Ellora Torchia)
Where lesser filmmakers aim to make magic with the long light, Härö waits until afterwards, when Hutri can conjure something less distinct and more distinctive from the dusk, from the thickening mist.
(Country: Finland; Year: 2015; Director: Klaus Härö; Writer: Anna Heinämaa; Stars: Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere Sr)
One of the bleakest whodunnits to grace our screens for some time, for all its wit and intermittent playfulness, this slice of Noida noir is full of compromised characters.
(Country: India; Year: 2015; Director: Meghna Gulzar; Writer: Vishal Bhardwaj; Stars: Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah, Atul Kumar, Gajraj Rao, Ayesha Parveen, Tabu)
It's pleasing to see the usual bravado downplayed in favour of something more realistic; likewise, although the dialogue doesn't always sparkle, it's much more in keeping with the way real soldiers talk.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Paul Gross; Writer: Paul Gross; Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Paul Gross, Christine Horn, Neamat Arghandabi)
The randomness of death in times of war aside, Land Of Mine - perhaps unavoidably - leans towards the conventional in its overall narrative arc.
(Country: Germany, Denmark; Year: 2015; Director: Martin Zandvliet; Writer: Martin Zandvliet; Stars: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Laura Bro, Oskar Bökelmann, Leon Seidel, Karl Alexander Seidel, Maximilian Beck, August Carter, Time Bülow, Alexander Rasch, Julius Kochinke)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Xavier Giannoli; Writer: Xavier Giannoli, Marcia Romano; Stars: Catherine Frot, Christa Théret, André Marcon, Sylvain Dieuaide, Michel Fau, Aubert Fenoy)
(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Matthew Saville; Stars: Anthony La Paglia, Julia Blake, John Clarke)
Nise - The Heart Of Madness is a brilliantly rendered slice of history which touches on numerous subjects and really does justice to the people it portrays.
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: Roberto Berliner; Writer: Flávia Castro, Mauricio Lissovski, Maria Camargo, Chris Alcazar, Patrícia Andrade, Leonardo Rocha, Roberto Berliner ; Stars: Gloria Pires, Fabricio Boliveira, Felipe Rocha)
Deftly scripted, subtle and challenging, this is a film which reminds us why Muntean is such an important contributor to the Romanian New Wave.
(Country: Romania; Year: 2015; Director: Radu Muntean; Writer: Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Razvan Radulescu; Stars: Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu, Tatiana Iekel, Ionut Bora)
This is slow cinema at its finest.
(Country: China; Year: 2015; Director: Zhang Yang; Writer: Zhang Yang; Stars: Yang Pei, Nyima Zadui, Tsewang Dolka, Gyatso, Tsring Chodron)
There are elements of courthouse film and elements of police procedural here, but the overall mood is closer to that of a Cold War spy thriller.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Lars Kraume; Writer: Lars Kraume, Olivier Guez; Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sebastian Blomberg)
Family drama this may be, but it's far from the heartwarming cliché, and it's not clear that anyone will be redeemed.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Kinga Debska; Writer: Kinga Debska; Stars: Agata Kulesza, Gabriela Muskala, Marian Dziedziel)
Gay challenges the usual cliches of disease films.
(Country: Spain, Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Cesc Gay; Writer: Tomàs Aragay, Cesc Gay; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Dolores Fonzi, Eduard Fernández, Àlex Brendemühl, Pedro Casablanc, José Luis Gómez, Javier Gutiérrez, Elvira Mínguez, Oriol Pla, Nathalie Poza, Àgata Roca, Susi Sánchez, Francesc Orella, Ana Gracia)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: Sérgio Machado; Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Elzio Vieira, Kaique Jesus)
A fiercely intellectual film, Lafosse shears away any shred of sentimentality, although humanism remains.
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2015; Director: Joachim Lafosse; Writer: Zélia Abadie, Bulle Decarpentries, Joachim Lafosse, Thomas van Zuylen; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Louise Bourgoin, Valérie Donzelli, Reda Kateb, Yannick Renier, Stéphane Bissot, Tatiana Rojo, Tibo Vandenborre, Philippe Rebbot, Travis Kerschen, Jean-Henri Compère, Luc Van Gunderbeeck)
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