Skip to main content

Glasgow Film Festival · 2022

Glasgow Film Festival 2022

Galas

Programme

4 films · 4 reviews

Jump to a film

Happening (L'Evenment)

Review preview for Happening

Diwan lets the cold hard facts trickle in as weeks are marked off at the bottom of the screen.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing.

(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Audrey Diwan; Writer: Audrey Diwan, Marcia Romano, based on the book by Annie Ernaux; Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro, Louise Chevillotte, Pio Marmaï, Sandrine Bonnaire, Leonor Oberson, Anna Mouglalis, Cyril Metzger, Eric Verdin, Madeleine Baudot, Alice de Lencquesaing, Fabrizio Rongione, Isabelle Mazin)

Full review See: Happening director Audrey Diwan on abortion, prizes, equality and truth

Murina

Review preview for Murina

With darker themes filtered through the turmoil of adolescence, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s début feature mingles picture postcard imagery with scenes of fish being hacked to pieces, blood and guts part of the day to day order of life.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home.

(Country: Croatia, Brazil, US, Slovenia; Year: 2021; Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic; Writer: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Frank Graziano, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic; Stars: Gracija Filipovic, Danica Curcic, Leon Lucev, Cliff Curtis, Jonas Smulders, Klara Mucci)

Full review See: Interview with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic about Murina

The Novice

Review preview for The Novice

This is a stunning first feature.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Lauren Hadaway; Writer: Lauren Hadaway; Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone Kate Drummond, Jonathan Cherry, Charlotte Ubben)

Full review See: Interview with Lauren Hadaway about The Novice

The Outfit

Review preview for The Outfit

The Outfit isn't doing anything new, but it does it all incredibly well.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Graham Moore; Writer: Johnathan McClain, Graham Moore; Stars: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn,. Nikki Amuka-Bird)

Full review