GFF22: Microreviews
A mini round-up of more films from this year’s Glasgow Film Festival programme.
GFF22: Murina
The Glasgow Film Festival ends with a gala screening of Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s debut film, a searing summer drama that centres on the disintegration of a Croatian family after they are visited by an old friend.
Interview: Paul Morris
Paul Morris is the writer-director-actor-editor-cinematographer-composer behind Angry Young Men, which premiered at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
GFF22: Angry Young Men
Paul Morris’ surreal scheme epic sees the gang hierarchy of fictional Scottish town Mauchton disturbed by a new arrival.
GFF22: Casablanca Beats
Nabil Ayouch’s fictionalised take on the true story of Moroccan kids who discover rap music at a youth club may have worked better as a documentary.
GFF22: Superior
Erin Vassilopolous’ Hitchcockian twin-swap noir is more Psycho than The Parent Trap.
GFF22: Silent Land
Agnieszka Woszczynska’s debut film follows a Polish couple’s trip to a rural part of coastal Italy that quickly becomes a holiday from hell.
GFF22: Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven’s racy historical drama about a 17th century nun’s journey from saint to sinner is too silly to be anything other than a well-executed satire.
GFF22: Red Rocket
Sean Baker’s latest film sees ex-pornstar Mikey Sabre return to his hometown after a twenty-year stint in LA. In a sure-to-be career reviving performance, Simon Rex’s Sabre (steady on) searches for the next hustle that will let him leave small-town Texas for good.
GFF22: The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier’s odyssey through four years of the life of Julie - a near-thirty-year-old woman struggling with an internal battle about what she wants from adult life - will resonate with every young person who watches it.
GFF22: Yuni
Kamila Andini’s social drama is a light-hearted portrait of an Indonesian teenager as she struggles with an internal dilemma that forces her to choose between the traditions of her Islamic community; or freedom.
GFF22: My Old School
Jono McLeod’s documentary about the ‘Peter Pan of Bearsden Academy’ is hilarious and oddly heart-warming.
GFF22: Hive
Blerta Basholli’s Sundance award-winner explores the struggles faced by the women left at home during the Kosovo War.
GFF22: The Outfit
The 2022 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival launches with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s fun crime caper about a tailor in 1950s Chicago who becomes embroiled in a mob conspiracy.
Glasgow Film Festival announces 2022 programme
GFF returns with a programme packed with exciting new releases, combining UK premieres of some of the most hotly anticipated films from last year’s summer festival circuit to the best in new Scottish talent. Plus, an interview with the festival’s co-director and Glasgow Film CEO, Allison Gardner.
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the hazy world of 1970s Los Angeles with a nostalgic love letter to being young and in search of a purpose in life.
Don’t Look Up
Adam McKay’s catastrophe comedy doesn’t land the same devastating direct hit as the fictional asteroid of this star-studded satire.
Cannes: Day Three
My final day at Cannes and the last day of the festival, covering Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Les Olympiades, and partying on the beach with Spike Lee.