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Edinburgh International Film Festival

Daily coverage of the EIFF 2003 (13-24 August)


Film Reviews: A-B | C-E | F-L | M-P | Q-Z |
The Rage in Placid Lake
Subversive comedy about an oddball making his way in a bland world.

Returner
Japanese futuristic action pic about an imminent alien invasion.

The River
Romantic comedy road movie, with thriller elements, in Senegal.

Royal Bonbon
a vagrant lays claim to the kingdom of Haiti.

Screaming Men
Finnish male voice choir have a scream on tour.

The Sky The Plane The Girl
The tale of a flighty romance

Silence: The Stigmatized
What do you do when you meet someone who knows you better than yourself?

So Close
Charlie's Angels-style action pic from the man who made The Transporter.

Solid Air
gambling with his father's life

Song For A Raggy Boy
Autobiographical account of life as a boy offender in an Irish Catholic reform school.

Sophiatown
Documentary about black cultural renaissance during apartheid in an area of Johannesburg in the Forties and Fifties.

Spare Parts
Drama about Slovenian immigrants being smuggled over the Italian border

Spun
American speed demons do it in trash venues across the motel strip joint landscape of despair.

Sredni Vashtar (Tartan Short)
Spooky tale of a sick boy and a shed at the bottom of the garden

A Story That Begins At The End
A high-caste Indian landowner discovers a wart on his chin that grows like Topsy.

Style Wars/Style Wars: Revisited
remastered 21-year-old documentary about graffiti artists in New York.

Swimming Pool
Prickly English author writing novel in French country house has her peace destroyed by arrival of her publisher'shedonistic daughter.

A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End
17-year-old Mexican boy agonises over his lover who walked out on him

A Thousand Months
Life in a poor Moroccan village, where a school chair is the most valued object

Today and Tomorrow
a rather bad day for Paula

Torremolinos 73
comedy in which an encyclopedia salesman and his wife start shooting "scientific reproduction" Super 8 films.

Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and his Lost Family
Jackie Chan reveals the secrets of his family history.

The Trigger
Old Taiwanese gangster agrees on one last hit, which involves a young ex-con, trying to go straight

The Trilogy: An Amazing Couple
Comedy of misunderstanding, as the second in Lucas Belvaux's Belgian trilogy.

Tube
Explosive action thriller, set on a Korean subway

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part One, The Moab Story
Meandering historial epic life story of a traveller/natural historian/writer.

Wilbur (Wants To Kill Himself)
A suicide addict, a bookish brother and a single mother emotionally interact in Glasgow.

Wise Guys (Tartan Short)
Gangster paperboys embark upon a dodgy spree

Wondrous Oblivion
Racial prejudice in South London, circa 1960, is relieved by cricket coaching in the back garden.

Yesterday
Korean SWAT team makes a drama out of a crisis

Young Adam
Rootless drifter working on Scottish canal barge discovers dead woman in the water.

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