EIFF 2023 – Past Lives: Review
“There’s a word in Korean. In-yeon. It means providence or fate.” This is the premise for Celine Song’s remarkable directorial feature debut Past Lives, a romantic drama about possibility and…
EIFF 2023 – Silent Roar: Review
“Hellfire, sex, and youth” are the three words Louis McCartney and Ella Lily Hyland used to describe Silent Roar at its red-carpet premier at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s…
EIFF 2023: Interview with Babak Jalali, Director and Co-Writer of Fremont
Closing the festival this year is Fremont, a film that follows Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) a former translator from Afghanistan as she tries to re-settle in America after being displaced…
EIFF: Official Competition Review
Predictability is often a quality in a movie’s plotting that leaves it open for derision. In film, the audience should be taken on a journey that they aren’t expecting, revelling…
EIFF 2022: Dream Agency Review
Dreams are famously rather nebulous and unfathomable things. Their elusive nature makes them objects of fascination, readily able to be picked apart in our great search for meaning. Dreams have…
EIFF 2022: The Narrow Road Review
As the world leaves the Coronavirus pandemic behind, it is almost inevitable that it will become the subject of many films. The Narrow Road, a film set in Hong Kong…
EIFF 2022: LOLA Review
LOLA opens with white text on a black background that states that the following footage was found in an abandoned Sussex home in 2021 and dates back to the 1940s.…
EIFF 2022: The Cloud and The Man Review
The Cloud and The Man is a beautiful film. It tells the story of a man’s relationship with a cloud, much as the title would suggest. Yet in a subtle,…