Glasgow Film Festival · 2017
15 films · 11 reviews
Benny is an affectionate tribute but it suffers from being as slight as its subject and nowhere near as powerful.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Andrew Gallimore)
The bright light of this fictional thing illuminates those real lives scattered around the edges of the tale.
(Country: Netherlands, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Kaweh Modiri; Writer: Kaweh Modiri; Stars: Sohrab Bayat, Eddie Paton, Lily Szramko)
An engaging, riveting watch.
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Parker; Writer: Ben Parker; Stars: Charlotte Salt, Johannes Kuhnke, Christian Hillborg, Elliot Levey, James McArdle)
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Jon Sanders; Writer: Anna Mottram, Jon Sanders; Stars: Meret Becker, Douglas Finch, Maxine Finch, Emma Garden, Bob Goody)
There's some fascinating, deep psychological stuff on display here, and this is the real strength of the film.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: David Graham Scott; Stars: Guy Wallace)
(Country: US; Year: 1987; Director: Bill Forsyth; Stars: Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill)
Harris shines in the central role.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Thomas Q Napper; Writer: Johnny Harris; Stars: Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley)
Dickson Leach makes good use of the countryside setting, to suggest the additional pressures that exist for farming families while allowing the environment to provide poetic interludes.
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Hope Dickson Leach; Writer: Hope Dickson Leach; Stars: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore)
Just when you think you know this story, Oldroyd and Birch begin to show you that you don't.
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: William Oldroyd; Writer: Alice Birch, based on the novel by Nikolai Leskov; Stars: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, Golda Rosheuvel, Anton Palmer)
Davies looks at questions of the soul, family, war, creativity and how to be true to yourself - all in stunningly beautiful images.
(Country: UK, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies; Stars: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon, Catherine Bailey, Emma Bell, Benjamin Wainwright, Annette Badland, Rose Williams, Noémie Schellens, Miles Richardson, Eric Loren, Stefan Menaul)
The combination allows for fascinating interplay of concerns.
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe; Writer: Ben Lerner, Tilda Swinton; Stars: John Berger, Tilda Swinton)
(Country: UK; Year: 1997; Director: John Byrne; Writer: John Byrne; Stars: Robin Laing, Russell Barr, Bill Gardiner)
(Country: Sweden, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Mark Cousins; Writer: Mark Cousins, Anita Oxburgh; Stars: Neneh Cherry)
The West Country slang in use is at times impenetrable, but it’s clear that writer Alex Simmonds has spent a long time learning its intricacies, and the actors are doing their best to capture the spirit and tone of this community.
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Adam Smith; Writer: Alastair Siddons; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Rory Kinnear, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Killian Scott, Barry Keoghan, Gerard Kearns, Tony Way, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Anastasia Hille, Paul Blackwell, George Russo, Barry McCormick, Billy Cook)
All of the children are endlessly charming, to the point where one wonders what has been edited out.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Paul Cameron)
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