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Glasgow Film Festival

26 February – 8 March 2020

Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman

The 16th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival ran from February 26 to March 8 and included a retrospective dedicated to dystopian cinema and a country focus on Iceland. It opened with Alice Winocour's Proxima and featured nine world premieres. Special guests included George Mackay, Simon Bird, Emily Beecham, Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson.

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  • Our Ladies
    Review preview for Our Ladies

    It feels a bit like a box-ticking exercise at a funding body.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Comedy drama sees a group of choirgirls on a day trip to Edinburgh.
  • Deerskin
    Review preview for Deerskin

    The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
  • State Funeral
    Review preview for State Funeral

    What the cumulative effect of masterfully restored newsreel may lack in action, it more than makes up for with the numbing, slow-burn sensation of being drawn under the spell of state-orchestrated mass mourning.

    Matthew Anderson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
  • Violet Evergarden
    Review preview for Violet Evergarden

    There is much to admire about this film.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A disabled former soldier devotes her life to writing letters on behalf of others and struggles to come to terms with her own feelings about the commanding officer who fell in love with her.
  • Martin Eden
    Review preview for Martin Eden

    Luca Marinelli is excellent in the lead, balancing intensity with intelligence, convincing at every stage of Martin's journey.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A man struggles to better his circumstances, motivated by his love for a woman from a bourgeois family.
  • Two Of Us
    Review preview for Two Of Us

    Two of Us jolts the senses - you can smell when the hot pan stays on the stove too long and want to interfere.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Two retired women, who have been in a secret relationship for decades, find their relationship turned upside down when the truth begins to come out.
  • The Painted Bird
    Review preview for The Painted Bird

    Smutný gives us faces that will stories even when they're still, the weight of long experience etched into every line.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
  • About Endlessness
    Review preview for About Endlessness

    There is more melancholy in About Endlessness, however, than in his preceding 'Living Trilogy', as despite moments of humour and hopefulness, its dominant themes are regret and loss.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Guided by a Scheherazade-like narrator, the film reflects on human life through a series of vignettes - from war-torn Cologne to smaller incidents like the tying of shoelaces.
  • Eternal Beauty
    Review preview for Eternal Beauty

    There's a volatility and a sweetness at play in what is, at heart, a character study and writer/director Craig Roberts strikes an impressive balance of mood.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A schizophrenic woman finds things change when she embarks on a romance with a failed musician.
  • A Ghost Waits
    Review preview for A Ghost Waits

    There's a melancholy undercurrent to the tale throughout, but that only makes its upbeat moments more delightful.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A man's job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.

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