French Film Festival Jean-Michel Bouchard (Rémy Girard) is a lifelong bachelor and retired archivist who is living out the late autumn of his life in a spacious apartment in a comfortable retiral home. His inner thoughts are heard as he strolls the home’s environs in his tweedy three-piece suits, when we learn that he has comeContinue reading “Testament (15)”
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A Magnificent Life (Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol)
French Film Festival 2025 French master of animation, Sylvain Chomet, brings his immense talent to the 2025 film chosen to open of this year’s French Film Festival UK that took place at Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema. Known for the wonderfully dark Belleville Rendezvous (Les Triplettes de Belleville) and the gentler, more benign but equally fabulous tributeContinue reading “A Magnificent Life (Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol)”
A New Scottish Documentary, Love & Trouble by Amy Hardie, Screens at Cameo
Love & Trouble, the new documentary film from director Amy Hardie goes on general release throughout the UK this June following an outstanding reception to its world premiere screening at Berlin’s Dokumentale’24 festival. The film will hold its Scottish premiere at Edinburgh’s Cameo Cinema with film team guests in attendance including director Amy Hardie and stars of the documentary, Kenny and KerryContinue reading “A New Scottish Documentary, Love & Trouble by Amy Hardie, Screens at Cameo”
The Mountaintop Royal Lyceum
Before a word of Katori Hall’s play is spoken, a strong sense of subversion is already on stage. It is a stormy night on 4th April 1968, the setting is room 306 of the Lorraine Motel, Memphis and the guest is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Caleb Roberts) who, just hours before, had delivered whatContinue reading “The Mountaintop Royal Lyceum”
Scottish Ballet: The Crucible Festival Theatre
Scottish Ballet’s superb production of Helen Pickett’s multi-award winning adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is on a Scottish tour, having recently enthralled audiences in Aberdeen and Edinburgh and is shortly to arrive in Glasgow. Everything about this is outstanding; David Finn’s set and lighting combining with composer Peter Salem’s score to ominous, overbearing effect,Continue reading “Scottish Ballet: The Crucible Festival Theatre”
The Land That Never Was Festival Theatre Studio
The boundaries of truth and lies are examined in a new piece of stand up storytelling from emerging Scottish theatre maker Liam Rees. Over 200 years ago, a Scottish con man going by the name of Gregor MacGregor operated on a grand scale in Britain and beyond to convince gullible folk to part with theirContinue reading “The Land That Never Was Festival Theatre Studio”
International Shorts at Manipulate Festival 2025
This year’s Manipulate Festival has included a 3 stranded programme of international shorts, a section of which is reviewed here. Seeing short films from other eras is a rare treat as it is a witnessing of the breadth of imagination that has been brought to their animated form. The opening film, To the Future (La Fantasmagorie),Continue reading “International Shorts at Manipulate Festival 2025”
And the Party Goes On (Et la fête continue) French Film Festival
The collapse of a Marseille tenement block in 2018, killing 8 people, opens director Robert Guédiguian’s film, with its aftermath informing events in his home city over the rest of the film. At the heart of this story, that is bursting with humanity both personal and political, is Rosa (Ariane Ascaride), a woman of ArmenianContinue reading “And the Party Goes On (Et la fête continue) French Film Festival”
Along Came Love (le Temps d’Aimer) (12) French Film Festival 2024
This year’s festival screens a film from one of its featured female directors, Katell Quillévéré, with her 2023 film le Temps d’Aimer (Along Came Love) that was influenced by her own family history. Opening with black and white footage of France after the German occupation showing the double-edged images of cheering crowds for the liberationContinue reading “Along Came Love (le Temps d’Aimer) (12) French Film Festival 2024”
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