2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aren’t You Happy (Das melancholische Madchen)
German indie Aren't You Happy comes from writer-director Susanne Heinrich who puts contemporary womanhood under the microscope in a playful...
Film Festivals
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2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (2013)
Taking its title from The Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed plays the Edinburgh International...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Bride (La novia)
Visceral Spanish drama The Bride plays as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival's Once Upon a Time in Spain...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Strange But True (2019)
Amy Ryan leads a cast of familiar faces in Strange But True, a thriller that revels in taking viewers on...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)
Bruno Ganz takes one of his final supporting roles in The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant) an Austrian coming of age drama...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Aniara (2019)
Hard-hitting Swedish space opera Aniara delivers nihilistic horror as it explores the breakdown of societal norms aboard a tragic space...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Darlin’ (2019)
Lucky McKee's 2011 Jack Ketchum adaptation, The Woman, may not strike you as a film in obvious need of a...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Strange But True (2019)
Strange But True is certainly strange, but I am unsure about its truth. What starts as a tense, family thriller...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Deposit
Director Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir’s debut The Deposit manages to say whole lot of nothing throughout its 90-minute running time. Every moment...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Ode to Joy (2019)
Jason Winer’s Ode to Joy is a rom-com based on a funny premise, that milks it to its greatest extent....
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – How To Fake A War (2019)
This is a brilliant concept executed incredibly poorly. Theoretically How to Fake a War should have been hilarious, but it...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – Bait (2019)
Bait is a true cinematic experience, utilising every tool in film school to make a seemingly non-descript melodrama into a...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Red Phallus (2018)
The Red Phallus is the debut feature from Bhutanese director Tashi Gyeltshen. It is the study of toxic masculinity in...
2019 Edinburgh Film Festival Review – The Grizzlies (2018)
The Grizzlies is an uplifting sports drama set in the remote Inuit town of Kuglugtuk in Nunavut, Canada. A true...