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Glasgow Film Festival · 2020

Glasgow Film Festival 2020

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How To Build A Girl

Review preview for How To Build A Girl

Where the narrative is hampered by a lack of self awareness, Feldman finds a way to turn it into something more poignant.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A bored schoolgirl reinvents herself as a professional music critic.

(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Coky Giedroyc; Writer: Caitlin Moran, based on her own novel; Stars: Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Donal Finn)

Promising Young Woman

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Fennell explores the lasting effects of traumatic events with care, never making light of the situation even amid moments of comedy.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman... until something abruptly derailed her future. Nothing in Cassie’s life is as it appears: she’s smart, cunning, and living a double life by night. Now, Cassie has a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling take on revenge.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Emerald Fennell; Writer: Emerald Fennell; Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Molly Shannon, Angela Zhou, Sam Richardson, Steve Monroe, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Connie Britton, Alfred Molina, Max Greenfield)

Proxima

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The narrative manages to balance the personal with the wider world of space exploration while dealing with the issues of domesticity and family demands and the conflicts of pursuing a demanding work arc.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
A female astronaut finds the demands of work take their toll on her single-mum relationship with her young daughter.

(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour; Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant-Lemesle, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev, Lars Eidinger, Sandra Hüller)