Next Year
I think next year I might dial it back and just go to 50 films. I’m knackered.
Month: March 2018
Best and Worst of the Fest
Best films of the festival: Nae PasaranThe Divine OrderTigers Are Not Afraid Worst films of the festival: Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?In The Name Of Peace: John Hume In AmericaThe Wanderers
Nae Pasaran
Just out of Nae Pasaran, which would have brought a tear tae a glass een. A documentary about the East Kilbride workers who refused to service or ship the engines used by the planes of the Chilean dictatorship during the 70s. Their legacy is examined in first-hand accounts of surviving political prisoners who recount what…
No Date, No Signature
An Iranian film about a doctor who becomes obsessed with idea that he might be responsible for the death of a boy after they are in a minor car accident together. This despite the fact that the boy is found to have died of botulism from eating tainted meat and didn’t die until days after…
Super November
The worst kind of Yes voter masturbatory persecution fantasy. Three friends sleepwalk into a dystopian future, unable to see the oncoming political threat over their attention-consuming everyday lives. Despite the heavy-handed nature of the story and having all the marks of a first film, it does achieve a warmth and sympathy for the characters and…
A Gentle Creature
An unrelentingly grim Russian film, that culminates in a weird dream sequence that you hope is shielding you from the awful thing that is actually happening to the main character, but no, it cuts back in time for you to see her vicious and explicit gang-rape in a ghastly, seemingly never-ending final scene.
Sixty Minutes To Midnight
Basically Running Man in a house. Utterly dull, nothing to say about it, just RAT-A-TAT! BOOM! roll credits.
Tigers Are Not Afraid
A beautiful film about street children running from gangs in Mexico, and escaping into the world of their imagination and the unnoticed magic of the real world. Shades of Pan’s Labyrinth but also The Secret Garden, but set in a reality that’s utterly brutal.
Secret Santa
A fun darkly comic seasonal splatstick.
Friendly Beast
A film about a restaurant owner who snaps during a robbery and decides to kill his assailants, customers and staff. Doesn’t make sense in terms of either character or plot. Gash.