The Fall
Stephen Berkman/Roadside Attractions
Tarsem/India-United Kingdom-United States 2008
A film to divide opinion if ever there was one, The Fall is stuffed to the brim with wondrous landscapes, staggering architecture and fantastical locations – all supposedly genuine and CGI-free. Apparently based on a Bulgarian movie from 1981, it starts off as a sweet fable told to a kid, and gets progressively darker and richer until – if you manage to keep cynicism at arm’s length successfully – it might even be moving. And all this from the director of 2000’s The Cell, a film of such complete rottenness that I actually came out of it less interested in movies than when I went in.
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Posted by Tim Hayes | 11am on 07/04/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008, Festival Express, Screening Room
Red
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Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee/United States 2008
A standard vigilante set-up turns into something much more interesting about age and bereavement in Red, a gothic modern-day Western from Jack Ketchum’s novel that combines a surprising cast with a chilly atmosphere which seeps into your bones. It also gives the majestic Brian Cox what would be the undisputed role of a lifetime, if he hadn’t already had several of those with probably a bunch more still to come.
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Posted by Tim Hayes | 10am on 07/04/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008, Festival Express, Screening Room
