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The 62Nd Edinburgh International Film Festival Cannes Castoffs? The 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival ‘Everyone’s entitled to their own Hollywood glamour; both stars radiant and shelf since its debut at the Toronto Film opinion, right?’ relaxed, bathed in the wash of paparazzi Festival 2 years ago, is as much about the ‘Wrong.’ flashbulbs. According to EIFF Managing nature of storytelling as it is about the ‘He or she is entitled to their informed Director Ginnie Atkinson the move from story it tells. In 1920’s Los Angeles an opinion.’ August to June, away from Edinburgh’s inquisitive young immigrant girl, Festival season, is part of a 5-year plan for Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), roams the Five minutes into Dreams With Sharp strategic growth that will put Edinburgh on hospital where she’s recovering from a Teeth , Erik Nelson’s documentary profile the map as a film festival city. And moving broken arm and bonds with Roy ( Pushing of author, screenwriter, and critic Harlan it away from the more glamorous Venice Daisies Lee Pace), a bed-ridden movie Ellison, my black little heart swelled as Film Festival (end of August) and the stuntman who whiles away the time America’s most curmudgeonly man of Toronto Film Festival (start of September) spinning her tales of the fantastical letters articulated just why I do what I do. should attract bigger films and stars. That adventures and derring-do of a You see, like most critics, I’m a bit of a was the plan anyway, although moving it mismatched brotherhood of heroes on a git; a smug know-it-all. I’m always right. closer to Cannes (mid-May) probably quest for justice. But Roy’s not a happy And everyone who doesn’t agree with me wasn’t such a hot idea. And it would be bunny and his tales take a dark turn when is wrong. Always. churlish and mean-spirited of me to he asks Alexandria to do him a little favour If you don’t believe me, watch this year’s mention that The Edge Of Love ’s and borrow some pills from the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s prestigious premiere at Edinburgh came dispensary, just to help him sleep … opening night film, John Maybury’s The only after it had been turned down for Shot in over 20 countries, The Fall is a Edge Of Love , then try and tell me that inclusion at Cannes. lush visual feast that relies on good old- Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller are The Edge Of Love wasn’t the only hand- fashioned talent and vision rather than CGI actresses and not Thunderbird puppets. me-down at this year’s festival, just its orcs to create its rich fantasy world, a Go on, try. They may be exquisitely least satisfying. One of its most beautiful, world bound only by the imagination of its sculpted, but be honest; Gerry Anderson Tarsem Singh’s jaw-dropping The Fall , a young protagonist. Fresh and genuine, has more to do with their acting technique film that’s inexplicably languished on the Catinca Untaru’s performance as than Stanislavski or Strasberg. And the only thing worse than Keira’s singing as Image from the film The Fall. Vera, ‘40s nightclub chanteuse and childhood sweetheart of Dylan Thomas, is Miller’s horrendous Oirish accent as Dylan’s wife Caitlin; more Bengal than Ballymeena. Had it been made in the ‘70s by Ken Russell, Maybury’s po-faced account of the tangled love life of the Welsh poet could’ve been a delirious camp classic in the style of Russell’s other gloriously over-the-top tales of artists’ lives The Music Lovers or Lisztomania . And in Russell’s hands the scene where Miller and Knightley share a bath would have been worth the price of admission alone. Unfortunately it’s not the ‘70s and that’s 104 minutes of my life that John Maybury has stolen from me. g p / While The Edge Of Love may have been k u . g thinner and less tasty than Keira and r o . t s Sienna’s bathwater, at least it kicked off e f m l the 62nd Edinburgh International Film i f d e Festival, its 1st in its new June spot, with . w w a bit of much-needed, old-fashioned w 588 British Journal of General Practice, August 2008 Reportage Alexandria is a delightful antidote to the British. We had Full Monty -style plucky crossing the border in virtual reality. Britain precocious pre-teen divas Hollywood underdogs ( Stone Of Destiny ), Louis made a late entry into the torture-porn churns out; an engaging, exuberant Theroux-style navel-gazing ( A Complete stakes with Donkey Punch and Mum And presence upon whom the film rests. When History Of My Sexual Failures ) and good Dad . Directed by Olly Blackburn and American film critic Roger Ebert reviewed old-fashioned British miserablism ( Better named for the kind of apocryphal sex-act The Fall he wrote: ‘You might want to see Things and Summer ). Somers Town was Loaded readers snigger about, Donkey it for no other reason than because it yet another attempt by Shane Meadows to Punch (Google it, Urban Dictionary’s a exists. There will never be another like it.’ prove himself the Midlands François good place to start) is repugnant but Stunning and affecting, The Fall is a Truffaut. Shot around London’s St Pancras effective. A group of chav girls on an genuine original. They really don’t make Eurostar terminal and funded by Eurostar, 18 –30’s holiday unwisely go for a boat trip them like this anymore. Meadows’ film did make me want to climb with some charming lads and violence, With few exceptions, Hannah McGill’s on a Eurostar and get the hell out of the rape, and murder ensue. While it delivered second festival as artistic director was as country just to avoid seeing any more the requisite shocks, Donkey Punch ’s underwhelming and safe as last year’s. Shane Meadows’ films, so Eurostar biggest problem was that I didn’t really While her programme continued probably consider it money well-spent. care about any of the characters. And I’m Edinburgh’s tradition of showcasing first- With a director, writer, and script chosen also quite childish so I kept trying to think time filmmakers, there was a distinct lack by MySpace users, words can’t describe of offensive sex-acts that could serve as of must-see films; nothing groundbreaking, how appallingly bad the closing night film the title for a sequel. nothing controversial. Pixar’s WALL-E is Faintheart actually is. It was the only film at Steven Sheil’s Mum And Dad was a critic-proof, I defy anyone not to like the this year’s EIFF where the distribution gripping tale of domestic horror obviously tale of a lonely little robot looking for love, company asked us to sign a press inspired by Fred and Rose West that had but it’s no Finding Nemo . Thankfully, it’s no embargo. Twenty minutes into the film I me on the edge of my seat even when I Cars either. Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor wished I’d used the distributor’s pen to wanted to be hiding behind it. When was a less believable retread of his earlier poke out my own eyes instead. immigrant Heathrow toilet cleaner Olga film The Station Agent where a bunch of Which isn’t to say there were not good misses her bus home she makes a big lonely oddballs bond and form a surrogate films at this year’s Festival. Sweden’s Let mistake when she accepts the offer of a family. In The Station Agent the oddballs The Right One In gave us the year’s most bed for the night from chatty young were a trainspotting dwarf, a sympathetic anti-heroine, a pre-teen colleague Birdie, particularly when she motormouthed Chicano, and Patricia vampire, in a movie where the biggest meets her new ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad.’ Clarkson who’s always a bit mopey in monsters aren’t the children of the night Shocking, nasty and genuinely upsetting, everything. The Visitor is more of the same but the bullies who haunt 12-year old hero Mum And Dad gave me perverse hope for except it has illegal immigrant drummers, a Oskar’s school day. Red was a gripping the future of the British film industry and mopey academic, and a distinct lack of slow-burner featuring Scots actor Brian also for the future of the Edinburgh Film dwarves. Cox as a lonely widower whose simple Festival. If Hannah McGill can find a few There were no surprises in Germany’s quest for justice for his murdered dog more films like Mum And Dad and if, The Wave , which trotted out the old escalates into a bloody small-town feud. fingers crossed, Shane Meadows doesn’t ‘trendy teacher turns class into fascists to Giving possibly his best performance make any more films in the next teach them the dangers of Nazism’ since he chilled the blood as the original 12 months, the 63rd Edinburgh chestnut. Unsurprisingly, a class of Dr Lecter in Michael Mann’s Manhunter , International Film Festival may just be teenage Germans take to Fascism like Cox’s small-town storekeeper is a worth going to. ducks to water and it’s all fun and games wounded bear of a man, who simply won’t until the inevitable bitter end. Máncora be pushed around anymore. David Watson was a sexy Peruvian road movie but if Thumping Brazilian action thriller Elite you’ve seen Y tu mamá también you’ve Squad treated us to the flipside of City Of already seen a sexier version.
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