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A procrastinating writer must face his insecurities in Christian Petzold’s sharp portrayal of creative hurdles. Leon (Thomas Schubert), a pretentious young writer struggling to finish the follow-up to his first book, embarks on a much-needed writing retreat in a seaside cottage with his best friend, a charming laissez-faire photographer. To the duo’s surprise, they arrive to find a mysterious woman, Nadja (played by the director’s frequent collaborator Paula Beer), staying at their place. Meanwhile, on the horizon, forest fires burn. The latest film from Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Barbara) comments on the subjectivities of passion with the same piercing soberness it uses to touch upon themes of insecurity and failure. The result is a sharp – and raucously entertaining - portrayal of the struggles of creatives, and one of the German auteur’s funniest films to date.
EIFF @ Summerhall
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A teenage tale of surfing, sex and hellfire set in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Dondo is a teenage surfer on the Isle of Lewis, who has yet to process his grief over his father’s disappearance at sea. Returning to school, spending time with his crush Sas, and encountering a very oddly-behaved new minister on the island, Dondo begins to have cosmic visions... From the lopsided dude charm of Louis McCartney’s Dondo, to Ella Lily Hyland’s turn as crisp-chomping cool girl Sas, to Hannah Peel’s soaring score, Silent Roar is a film infused with mystic charisma. In his debut feature, Johnny Barrington renders the Hebridean landscape in tactile 35mm, as something strange and elemental: a place where transgressive explorations of mourning exist alongside witty forays into religion and teenage hormonal curiosity. Surf’s up!
EIFF @ The Cameo
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This smart, chilling debut merging gothic horror with social issues picked up the Grand Jury Prize at South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. Joy (Max Eigenmann), an undocumented Filipina cleaner moving from house to house in London with her impetuous daughter Grace in tow, is saving up her meagre cash payments to get a visa and a more stable home for them both. Stuck in a roundabout of precarious employment, deportation fears and casual, constant put-downs by her employers, Joy cannot afford to stand still. A dreamy gig looking after a mansion and its bed-bound owner (David Hayman) turns out to be too good to be true when Joy starts suspecting the owner is being slowly poisoned... Writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s debut film (presented as a work in progress at EIFF 2022) elegantly balances gothic horror and social drama, producing an unholy child of a film that provokes as much as it spooks.
EIFF @ The Cameo
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A procrastinating writer must face his insecurities in Christian Petzold’s sharp portrayal of creative hurdles. Leon (Thomas Schubert), a pretentious young writer struggling to finish the follow-up to his first book, embarks on a much-needed writing retreat in a seaside cottage with his best friend, a charming laissez-faire photographer. To the duo’s surprise, they arrive to find a mysterious woman, Nadja (played by the director’s frequent collaborator Paula Beer), staying at their place. Meanwhile, on the horizon, forest fires burn. The latest film from Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Barbara) comments on the subjectivities of passion with the same piercing soberness it uses to touch upon themes of insecurity and failure. The result is a sharp – and raucously entertaining - portrayal of the struggles of creatives, and one of the German auteur’s funniest films to date.
EIFF @ Summerhall
Tech Cube
A teenage tale of surfing, sex and hellfire set in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Dondo is a teenage surfer on the Isle of Lewis, who has yet to process his grief over his father’s disappearance at sea. Returning to school, spending time with his crush Sas, and encountering a very oddly-behaved new minister on the island, Dondo begins to have cosmic visions... From the lopsided dude charm of Louis McCartney’s Dondo, to Ella Lily Hyland’s turn as crisp-chomping cool girl Sas, to Hannah Peel’s soaring score, Silent Roar is a film infused with mystic charisma. In his debut feature, Johnny Barrington renders the Hebridean landscape in tactile 35mm, as something strange and elemental: a place where transgressive explorations of mourning exist alongside witty forays into religion and teenage hormonal curiosity. Surf’s up!
EIFF @ The Cameo
Screen 1
This smart, chilling debut merging gothic horror with social issues picked up the Grand Jury Prize at South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. Joy (Max Eigenmann), an undocumented Filipina cleaner moving from house to house in London with her impetuous daughter Grace in tow, is saving up her meagre cash payments to get a visa and a more stable home for them both. Stuck in a roundabout of precarious employment, deportation fears and casual, constant put-downs by her employers, Joy cannot afford to stand still. A dreamy gig looking after a mansion and its bed-bound owner (David Hayman) turns out to be too good to be true when Joy starts suspecting the owner is being slowly poisoned... Writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s debut film (presented as a work in progress at EIFF 2022) elegantly balances gothic horror and social drama, producing an unholy child of a film that provokes as much as it spooks.
EIFF @ The Cameo
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