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The festival, the first under new festival director Shane Danielsen,
ends with Insomnia. It's an appropriate - albeit relatively
mainstream - choice: after 100 films in twelve days, diehard festival-goers
will be feeling like Al Pacino's exhausted, sleep-deprived and disspirited
cop.
The "mix" of films at this year's festival appears more Hollywood-leaning
than under the previous director, Lizzie Francke, although Danielsen
insists that this is more to do with the films available this year.
Among the stars expected in Edinburgh are Sigourney Weaver, Samuel L
Jackson, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Heather Graham,
Marisa Tomei and Jimi Mistry.
However, the focus will inevitably be on Gaspe Noe's controversial Irreversible,
which features Monica Belluci in a vicious nine-minute rape scene. The
film was booed at Cannes for its graphic sexual violence and its inclusion
in the programme has already attracted criticism locally in Edinburgh.
However, festival director Shane Danielsen defends it as "the best
film I saw at Cannes and...the most powerful film of the year".
EIFF '02 programme launch: introduction
EIFF '02 programme launch: British and Gala
films
EIFF '02 programme launch: International
Films
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Night, Reel Life & more
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