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Daily coverage of the 58th EIFF (18-29 August, 2004)

A-Z of EIFF Film Reviews: A-B | C-E | F-L | M-P | Q-Z
2046 (cancelled)

20:30:40
Three women, three stages in life, one city.

Ae Fond Kiss
Dangerous liaison between a lapsed Irish Catholic and a first generation Pakistani Muslim.

After The Day Before (Masnap)
Rural life turns out to be anything but idyllic.

Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie de l'Enfer)
French intellectual take on kinky sex between a gay man and a suicidal woman.

Arahan
Comedy chop-socky with serious martial arts moves from South Korea.

B-Happy

Bitter Dream (Khab e Talkh)

Black Jesus (Seduto alla sua destra)

Blinded

Blue Black Permanent

Blue Collar White Christmas (Nede Pa Jordan)

Buena Vida Delivery (Good Life Delivery)
Argentinian black comedy about moving the family into a hapless boyfriend's house.

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Calvaire (The Ordeal)
A passing crooner is kidnapped by a loony in the woods.

Chain
An agit-prop study of consumerism and teenage despair in the US heartland of the big sell.

Checkpoint (Machssomim)
The interaction between Palestinians and Israelis at one of the only points of contact between the two communities, the Israeli army checkpoints.

Coffee & Cigarettes
Series of sketches based around coffee and cigarettes, where a series of stars from all walks of life humorously discuss all sorts of things.

Comme une Image (Look At Me)
A cheerfully caustic comedy about vanity, social class and the performing arts.

Control (Kontroll)
A bizarre fictional insight into the idiosyncratic lives of Budapest’s underground train inspectors.

Control Room

Dead Man's Shoes
An ex-army man strolls into town, seeking revenge on his disabled brother’s assailants.

Dear Frankie
Mother of a nine-year-old deaf boy pays a stranger to be dad for a day.

Dear Pillow
The adventures of a sex-starved 17-year-old porn-mag abuser.

Demi-Tarif (Half Price)
Abandoned kids scam a life of shoplifting, scamming restaurants and eating junk.

The Desert of The Tartars (Il Deserto dei Tartari)

Drift

Duck Season (Temporada de Patos)

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Family Diary (Cronaca Familiare)

Far Side Of The Moon (La Face Cachee De La Lune)
Two brothers, a perpetual student and a gay weatherman, come to terms with life after mum dies.

The Gift (Il Dono)
The old man, the prostitute and the dog that dies.

Girl With a Suitcase (La Ragazza Con La Valigia)

The Girls of San Frediano (Le Ragazze Di San Frediano)

A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baramnan Gajok)

The Green Hat (Lu Mao Tze)

Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
The short, violent life of The Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hamburg Cell

Hanging Offense (Cette femme-la)

Hero (Ying Xiong)

Hillside Strangler

House Of The Tiger King

I Like Killing Flies

In The Dark

Incident At Loch Ness

Inside I'm Dancing

Just Bea (Bare Bea)

Kenny Does Dougal

The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd)
All quiet on the Eastern Front.

A Letter To True
A meandering montage of photorapher Bruce Weber's passions and concerns, centering on his love of his five dogs.

Little Men

Love Is In The Air
Life-affirming documentary follows an unconventional Icelandic theatre company, as it deals with the challenges of bringing their play to the London stage.

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The Machinist
Christian Bale lives in the subconscious of a mentally frail insomniac.

Machuca
Allende's Chile, as experienced by two boys from different social backgrounds and a vivacious girl.

Mamay

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
The fall and rise of a veteran heavy metal band.

Mickybo And Me

The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios De Motocicleta)
Coming of age drama based on the writings of a young Che Guevara.

Los Muertos
An ex-convict's journey up river in deepest Argentina.

My Summer Of Love
Sad, lonely girl finds happy, lovely girl and has a cuddly, kissy time.

Natural City
Futuristic action-packed, robot-serviced, Blade Runner-esque thriller from South Korea.

O Lucky Man!

Old Boy
A revenge drama from South Korea creates a mystery for the long term prisoner who is released.

Overnight
How to be the next big thing in Hollwood and screw up.

Passages (Lu Cheng)
a young couple, disillusioned with student life, take off on a search for special mushrooms that could land them a fortune.

Peace One Day
One man goes on a global pilgrimage in search of world peace for a day.

Pearls And Pigs
Comedy featuring four heavy drinking misfit brothers who find a new meaning in their lives when their half sister moves in with them and discovers a lucrative, hidden talent.

Primer

Primo Amore (First Love)
Blind date between bald bully and wholesome girl reconstituted as an Italian art movie

Process
Casual sex, a mastectomy, marital disintegration leads a depressed actress to take her life.

The Professor (La Prima Notte Di Quiete)

The Purifiers
Futuristic gang war chopsocky Scottish vigilante action packer.

Purple Butterfly (Zi Hudie)
Secret loves and violent action of resistance fighters in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation.

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Quaranta Giorni (Forty Days)

Ramblers (Lializumu No Yado)

Ramones: End Of The Century

Red Cockroaches

Rewind (Videoreul Boneun Namja)
Nameless Korean video store manager leads an uneventful life, pursued by women.

Rhythm Is It!

Riding Giants
Everything you will ever want to know about surfing.

Saved!

Skinned Deep
Middle American freaks kill passing strangers in disgusting and bloody ways.

A Social Genocide (Memoria Del Saqueo)
An angry, heartfelt documentary exposing in detail the years of government corruption which brought Argentina to its knees.

Le Soldatesse

Somersault
Sexually awakened 15-year-old escapes to an Australian ski resort and lives off her wits.

Spy Bound (Agents Secrets)
Inside the lives of France's best secret agents.

Stage Beauty
To be or not to be a woman on the London stage, circa Pepys, Charles II and 1660.

Summer Clouds (Nubes De Verano)
A couple find their fidelity tested on summer holiday.

Super Size Me
Documentary filmmaker acts as guinea pig in fast food experiment.

Taipei 21 (Taipei Er Uo)
Twentysomething couple struggle with their relationship in modern Taiwan.

Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos)
Domestic abuse and its aftermath, Spanish style.

A Thousand Dreams Such As These
Three friends live through a decade of political turmoil in India.

Tokyo Godfathers
Animated tale of three vagrants in Tokyo who find a baby and look after it.

Trauma
Failed artist, with a thing about ants, loses his wife and might be responsible for a pop star's death.

United
Light hearted comedy, where one man’s obsession with playing for Manchester United threatens to tear up his relationship.

Untold Scandal (Seu-ken-deul: Jo-seon-nam-nyeo Sang-yeol-ji-sa)
Korean retelling of the French classic Les Liaison Dangereuses.

Violent Summer (L'Estate Violenta)
Set in the summer of Mussolini’s demise, a tempestuous love affair ensues between the widowed wife of a naval hero and a younger dodge drafting dandy.

War
Mysterious end-of-the-world black-and-white study of life after nothing.

The Whales of August

Yasmin

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Zelary
A nurse, working for the Resistance in Prague, 1943, escapes to the Moravian mountains.

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