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Glasgow Film Festival · 2021

Glasgow Film Festival 2021

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7 films · 7 reviews

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Cowboys

Review preview for Cowboys

Rather than following somebody raised a girl who is learning to live as a boy, it's about a boy who, all too quickly, has to start learning to be a man.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Anna Kerrigan; Writer: Anna Kerrigan; Stars: Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Ann Dowd, Chris Coy, Bob Stephenson, Gary Farmer, Sasha Knight, Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Ann Dowd, Chris Coy, Bob Stephenson, Gary Farmer, Sasha Knight)

Full review See: Interview with Anna Kerrigan about Cowboys, part two , Interview with Anna Kerrigan about Cowboys

The Dissident

Review preview for The Dissident

The Icarus Oscar-winner's analysis is robust and well-illustrated and he moves at a pace, even if the scoring from Adam Peters is over-insistent in places.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Bryan Fogel; Writer: Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe)

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First Cow

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The simplest of pleasures bring the greatest moments of joy in Reichardt’s latest film.

Matthew Anderson · 4.5 out of 5
A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt, based on the book by Jonathan Raymond; Stars: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Alia Shawkat)

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The Masque Of The Red Death

Review preview for The Masque Of The Red Death

A film which is there not just to be watched, but to be experienced.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
A cruel prince devotes himself to Satan and lives a life of excess, but just beyond his castle gates lurks a deadly plague.

(Country: UK; Year: 1964; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell; Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee)

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Minari

Review preview for Minari

The idea of a younger family member gradually forming a connection with an older one is a constant in cinema but it has a purity here that is shorn of unnecessary sentiment.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
David, a seven-year-old Korean-American boy, gets his life turned upside down when his father decides to move their family to rural Arkansas and start a farm in the mid-1980s, in this charming and unexpected take on the American Dream.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Lee Isaac Chung; Writer: Lee Isaac Chung; Stars: Steven Yeun, Han Yeri, Youn Yuh Jung, Will Patton, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho)

Full review See: Steven Yeun, Lee isaac Chung, Alan Kim and Noel Cho on Minari

Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In

Review preview for Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In

The richness of all this is something that will intrigue viewers with an interest in the history of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Manchester as cities, as well as appealing to football fans.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A look at the life and legend of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.

(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Jason Ferguson; Writer: Mark Monroe; Stars: Alex Ferguson, Jason Ferguson, Eric Cantona)

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Spring Blossom (16 Printemps)

Review preview for Spring Blossom

Artfully confected and directed with a light touch, this is a layered yet knowingly insubstantial creation, un amour choux.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A bored teenager finds herself torn between the love of an older man and her adolescence.

(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Suzanne Lindon; Writer: Suzanne Lindon; Stars: Arnaud Valois, Frédéric Pierrot, Dominique Besnehard, Suzanne Lindon, Rebecca Marder, Philippe Uchan, Florence Viala, Françoise Widhoff, Raymond Aquaviva, Arthur Giusi)

Full review See: Writer/director/star Suzanne Lindon on her debut Spring Blossom