This blog celebrates the wide range of excellent films shown at the Glasgow Film Festival, as well as other film festivals shown in Glasgow. Some reviews are long, some reviews are short. All are intended to give you an idea of what you might like to see, and take a chance on something a little…
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Well, I fell ill for pretty much half the festival, so only 16 films this year. It is what it is. Favourite film of the festival – Four Mothers Least favourite film of the festival – Mr K It was a big ole milestone with Allison retiring. It won’t be the same without her.
Genuinely really lovely, warm, uplifting film. I’m not a sports fan, a football fan, a cycling fan. So you might not expect me to go in for a film about football fans cycling to Germany to see Scotland play in the Euros. I wouldn’t expect it from myself, but this film just transcends all of…
Excellent movie. From the sprawling epic The Odyssey, Uberto Passolini chooses to focus on the final challenge of King Odysseus, when he returns home to find both his home and himself changed. Instead of the spectacle of battle, we get a tense, introspective meditation on the inability to ever really go home again. Which is…
Comedy crime caper set during the reunification of Germany. It’s the last week before the East German currency becomes obsolete. Everybody’s been laid off, and are considering how to start all over again now their way of life is ending. A trio of old friends persuade a security worker to let them into the local…
I really liked this! I really love the dry Austrian humour, beautifully underplayed to maximum effect. Andrea is a cop in a sleepy little town in the Austrian countryside where nothing ever happens, but things are looking up! She just got a big promotion to detective, which will involve moving to a more lively city,…
Restless is about Nicky, a kind, considerate, decent, hard-working carer, who is kept awake by her new noisy neighbour until she eventually starts to lose her shit. Loved this movie. Loved how it manages to trace all the ripple effects of this mundane and downplayed problem without ever being heavy-handed about it. It explores how…
This film is doing a thing, the thing is just not for me. Richard Herring once did an hour-long set just stretching out one joke about yoghurt. This is like that, only it’s about Linda McCartney vegetarian ready meals, in film form. This feels like an Edinburgh Fringe show that ran on a bare stage…
This is one of those documentaries where you are surprised folk agreed to be in it at all, given how intimate and sensitive the subject is. Mistress Dispeller follows a wife discovering her husband of many years has begun having an affair with a much younger woman. Mrs Li chooses to deal with the situation…
My favourite film of the festival so far! So funny. Just great. Stellar cast. So identifiable. Edward is caring for his elderly mother Alma, who is paralysed down one side and has lost the ability to speak, save for using the text-to-speech app on her ipad. She doesn’t let that stop her though, making her…