The Raid
By David McGinty. Published 10 May 2012
Unlikely pairings can be perfect. Indonesian film The Raid centres around a police bust in a large tower block filled with criminals, guns, and machetes; unlikely fare from a Welsh...
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home
By Jamie Dunn. Published 08 May 2012Through a haze of marijuana smoke we’re introduced to Jason Segel’s Jeff, a 30-year-old galumph who makes the actor’s earlier man-child characters from Knocked Up and I Love You, Man...
The Monk
By Chris Fyvie. Published 24 April 2012Legendary orator and pillar of the church Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) has his devotion to God thrown into question by the arrival of Valerio (Déborah François), a young woman masquarading as...
Breathing
By Jac Mantle. Published 20 April 2012Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert excells as Roman Kogler, a sullen youth in a juvenile detention centre who must succeed in his new day-release job as an undertaker in order to...
GFF 2012: Bonsái
By Nicola Balkind. Published 02 April 2012Chilean directing talent Cristián Jiménez's second feature film is one for the bookish. Bonsai's protagonist Julio (Diego Noguera) is more of a leader-on than a leading man, using his cultural...
GFF 2012: This Is Not a Film
By Chris Buckle. Published 29 March 2012In 2009, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested for supporting anti-Ahmadinejad protests; in 2010, he was arrested a second time, sentenced to six years imprisonment, and banned from making films...
GFF 2012: Wild Bill
By Nicola Balkind. Published 22 March 2012Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directorial debut from actor Dexter Fletcher follows...
GFF 2012: The Kid With a Bike
By Philip Concannon. Published 22 March 2012All you really need to know about the Dardenne brothers' new film is that it concerns a kid and his bike. Watching the work of this extraordinary filmmaking team with...
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
By Philip Concannon. Published 12 March 2012Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a film of two halves, and regrettably, one half is so much richer than the other, which leaves Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest picture...
GFF 2012: Death of a Superhero
By Chris Fyvie. Published 02 March 2012A refreshingly unsentimental account of a teenager dealing with terminal cancer, Death of a Superhero sees Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, in an excellent turn) retreat into a dark comic-book fantasy as...
GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
By Phil Gatt. Published 24 February 2012Weimarvellous attempts to recall the heady decadence of 1920s Berlin through a programme of burlesque, readings and cabaret karoake. The Blue Angel, which is opening the event, launched Dietrich's career and reflects the carnivalesque...
GFF 2012: Omar Killed Me
By Chris Buckle. Published 24 February 2012It’s obvious Omar Killed Me is based on fact; no fictional equivalent would make its central injustice so glaring. The film presents the murder conviction of Moroccan gardener Omar Rassad...
GFF 2012: Bel Ami
By Becky Bartlett. Published 24 February 2012Bel Ami, based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, marks the feature debut of directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The quality of the sets, costumes and cast belies the...
GFF 2012: Livid
By Chris Fyvie. Published 24 February 2012Bustillo and Maury’s follow-up to their delightfully twisted Inside sticks to a similar recipe of awkward laughs and chills, but with less inspired results. Lucie (Chloe Coulloud) is on the...
GFF 2012: The Somnambulists
By Chris Buckle. Published 23 February 2012Inspired emotionally by his anger over the Iraq war, and stylistically by Joanna Kane’s photography exhibition of the same name, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a sparse, polemical work. In...
GFF 2012: Into The Abyss
By Philip Concannon. Published 22 February 2012Werner Herzog's latest enquiry into human nature takes him to Texas, where he explores the fallout from a decade-old murder. Into the Abyss is built around interviews with various people...
GFF 2012: Chinese Take-Away
By Chris Buckle. Published 21 February 2012Chinese Take-Away might well boast the oddest opening of the festival: on a serenely beautiful lake, an attempted proposal is interrupted by a cow falling from the sky and landing...
GFF 2012: Michael
By Jamie Dunn. Published 20 February 2012Avoid basements – that’s what cinema has taught us. It is the room of the house reserved for horror, and that’s its function in Michael, Markus Schleinzer’s formally masterful directorial...
GFF 2012: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
By Chris Fyvie. Published 19 February 2012Rob Heydon’s adaptation of The Undefeated, one of three novellas in Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, clearly has affection for the source material and the cinematic subgenre it reflects,...
GFF 2012: Finisterrae
By Nicola Balkind. Published 19 February 2012Crossing the Line, the new strand at this year's festival, brings experimental and avant-garde films to the Glasgow, exploring the crossover between cinema and visual art. Finnisterrae is, in many...
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