CineDaily – 1 Mar: Force Majeure, Small Faces, today's reviews and more

Feature by News Team | 01 Mar 2015
Film of the Day: Force Majeure [GFT, 7.30pm]

What we said: "In a formally playful fashion and manner largely free of didacticism, Östlund skewers the hollowness of many notions of gender roles and offers a pitch-black comedy that's simultaneously full of raw emotion and as tense as many a great horror movie. A blizzard of discomfort and ambiguities." (Read full review...)

Today's Highlights

Small Faces
GFT, 2.10pm
Gillies MacKinnon’s Small Faces is a vivid coming of age movie following three brothers as they skirt the fringes of gang culture in 60s Glasgow. An unsung gem of British cinema, GFF’s screening also acts as a mini cast and crew reunion.

From What Is Before
GFT, 1.30pm
Hardcore movie fans/masochists [delete as appropriate] have one final treat in store as visionary Filipino director Laz Diaz delivers another arthouse epic. At 5h38m, you might want to bring a cushion.

Coming Home
GFT, 4.45pm
Zhang Yimou, one of the leading lights of China's ‘fifth generation’, is back with what GFF are calling “his best film in a decade.”

#GFF15 VIDEOS AND INTERVIEWS

Bringing Da Funk to GFF: Mia Hansen-Løve on Eden
This year's GFF music on film strand, Sound and Vision, is headlined by Mia Hansen-Løve's brilliant new film Eden, an intimate epic telling the history of the French Touch music scene through one DJ's bloodshot eyes: "“It’s strange, people who spend their lives in nightclubs, don’t sleep at night, take drugs and alcohol, some of them die, but some of them seem to stay as if they were 25 forever." (Read full interview...)

British Sea Power discuss putting on A Night at the Regal
Glasgow Film Festival celebrated the Glasgow ABC's past and present with A Night at the Regal, an evening of live sonic cinema paying tribute to the Sauchiehall Street building's cinematic history (it started life as one of the city's first cinemas, the ABC Regal) and its current use as an O2 gig venue. Indie-rockers British Sea Power took the headline slot, performing their score to Penny Woolcock's archive film From the Sea to the Land Beyond, which charts the history of the British coastline. "We seem to not be able to get away from anything to do with the sea," says the Brighton band's Scott Wilkinson in the video above. "From the name of our band to The Man of Aran [the 1934 Robert Flaherty documentary they famously rescored] to this. We live by the sea, we go swimming, we can't avoid it really."

OUR REVIEWS OF TODAY'S FILMS

Eden: "At one point Paul describes the tracks he spins as halfway between melancholy and euphoria. Hanson-Løve plays a similar tune." (Read full review...)

On the Trail of the Far Fur Country: "Nikkel presents us with visions of an idealised past, and the turning point at which the world began to go hideously wrong." (Read full review...)

The Ninth Cloud: "Director Spencer cleverly deconstructs the genre by playing it out in a lo-fi, naturalistic way that highlights their absurdity – cute one-liners and starry gazes are endearing with the right music and editing, but strip these things away and the individuals in question start to look either painfully pretentious or just a little unhinged." (Read full review...)


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