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Glasgow Film Festival

20 February – 3 March 2019

Gloria Bell
Gloria Bell

The 15th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival opened with the UK première of Jonah Hill's Mid90s and closed with Beats, a story set in Scotland's rave culture. It included seven world premières and 102 UK premières. Six out of the ten nominees for the prestigious Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award were new features directed by women. Special strands included a focus on new Belgian cinema and a look back to the great US movies of 1969, plus there was a strand dedicated to the underappreciated work of Elaine May.

The festival runs from 20 February to 3 March.

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  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels
    Review preview for Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels

    The viewer has to be keyed into Akerman's cinematic language, how she portrays boredom, claustrophobia, isolation.

    Donald Munro · 4 out of 5
    A widow for six years, Jeanne maintains a strict household routine. She cooks, cleans, shops and entertains a gentleman caller each afternoon to support herself and her teenage son.
  • Dirty God
    Review preview for Dirty God

    Ever cursed to wear a half-sealed translucent franju-esque mask that makes her scars even more visible, Jade is a single mother and an acid attack survivor.

    Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5
    Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
  • The Ghost Of Peter Sellers
    Review preview for The Ghost Of Peter Sellers

    A must-see warning for all would-be filmmakers.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In 1973, director-on-the-rise Peter Medak nabbed notoriously difficult comic genius and box-office star Peter Sellers for his new pirate comedy, Ghost In The Noonday Sun. Sellers immediately began sabotaging the film.
  • Eminent Monsters
    Review preview for Eminent Monsters

    Although in places it feels a bit scattershot, the quantity of detail that it packs in is impressive.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    ‘Do no harm’ is an abiding principal of psychiatry. It is abandoned time after time in this exploration of the profession’s collusion with state sponsored torture over the past 70 years.
  • Happy As Lazzaro
    Review preview for Happy As Lazzaro

    Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
  • In My Room
    Review preview for In My Room

    Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
  • Arctic
    Review preview for Arctic

    Joe Penna's thriller is as lean and spare as life up in the Arctic wilderness.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A tragic accident leaves a man stranded in the Arctic with no hope of rescue.
  • Hotel Mumbai
    Review preview for Hotel Mumbai

    Patel and Kher are worth the price of admission on their own.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A dramatisation of the 2008 terrorist attacks that centred on Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
  • Loro
    Review preview for Loro

    It takes real directorial skill to deliver something so shallow across two and a half hours and keep the audience gripped.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A seedy, ambitious Puglian property developer sets his sights sets on Rome and access to Berlusconi’s inner circle.
  • Wild Rose
    Review preview for Wild Rose

    Nicole Taylor's quickfire script provides great material for the actors to work with .

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A Glasgwegian single mum tries to make it in the world of country music.

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