The Green Hat (Lu Mao tze) O... /‘\hsolutely fantastic crime thriller from llong Kong. Hie ()reen Hat hreaks
the mould in so many ways It's a heist moyre that isn't, it's a mid life crisis moyre hut it isn't. What a delight to come across a movre that rs willing to take so many chances With its audience. After a successful hank heist Wang stops off to call his girlfriend in a phone shack. only for things to go very wrong. To tell more ahout this wonderful film would he a crime hut it emhr'aces the hi/arre. mundane and sexually explicit With reassuring alacrity. (Paul Dale) Cameo I, .")_()‘(l/)rn.
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hased rlocumentar'ies for your delectatron. Fi/m/iouse 2. fifa‘tlpnr.
In the Dark 0.. See Saturday 21 August. Fi/Irr/roi13e3, (5pm.
Ae Fond Kiss 0... Casim lAtta Yaguhl. a Glaswegian»Pakistani DJ. falls in love wrth lrishCatholrc music teacher Roisin iEva Birthrstlel. hut Will this relationsth cause a complete estrangement from his traditionalist parents. who expect their son to enter into an arranged marriage? The third in director Ken teach and writer Paul Lavedy's West of Scotland trilogy. Ae Fond Kiss is a compassionate love story, which is fiercely critical of religious
dogmatism (whether Christian or Muslim).
and which questions the way society prrvrleges monogamy. (Tom Dawsonr UGC 7. 7pm.
Chain 0... See Friday 20 August. UGC (i. 7. 75pm.
Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune) oooo Lepage's world is one of polar opposites. Showrng two brothers getting over the death of their mother. he sets success against failure. gay against straight. materialist against idealist. In the memories of the mother. he sets brilliant youth against cruel old
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age, And in the chsession with the space race, he sets Russian against American. the hrrght side of the moon against the dark. By playing hoth hrother‘s himself, I epage suggests these dualrties are in us all. Funny. philosophical and poetic. (Mark l rsheri l'r/m/iouse I, 21.30pm.
Touch the Sound - A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie 0... See Friday Ill) August. l'ii’mhouse (3. 30pm.»
A Good Lawyer’s Wife (Baramnan Gajok) .0. What? Another great South Korean film? Surely not. lhrs slow hur‘nrng dissection of a rriarriage on the skids and the sexual mores of hotli partners ihut mostly the wifei is hoth condemning and at one With the age we live in. Visceral and deeply felt. this is a movre for readers of RD Laing and Yukio Mishiriia lMak kirn-loi UGC :5. 2"..1:3prii. Summer Clouds (Nubes de Verano) .0. Marital infidelity Spanish style. Gentle corriedy drarria ahout couples on the Costa Braya that may just ring a few hells in the UK. Beautifully scripted and acted. the film is part farce and part Rattigan-esgue. talky drama. A small delight. iPahlo Dadar Cameo 7. 8pm.
Stage Beauty 0... See Saturday 21 Aug. 3 Glasgow Film Theatre 1. 8.30pm.
Documentarist 0.00 See Friday 20 August. Fi/rrr/rouse 3. 9pm.
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst 0.. Director Rohert Stone presents the argument. convincing)ly. that heiress-turnext-urhan guerrilla Patty Hearst and her Symt’nonese Liheration Army kidnapperscum-comrades were actually a hunch of rich kid posers. high on public intarrry. As one former SLA rnernher. recalling watching the kidnapping unfold from a prison cell. puts rt: ‘ls everyone stoned?" No one. not the kidnappers. the authorities or the press. comes off looking anything other than dumb. The fact that post-9 t t n‘ania has renewed interest in and rail sentences to: Sumying SLA \eterans l‘.‘.’ltli€ Hearst continues to enJOy celebrity status. proves no ones WISng up. UGC 9450/77.
56 THE LIST FESTIVAL MAGAZINE 19—26 Aug 200.:
DAMIEN THE DARING
Tom Dawson talks to the DAMIEN ODOUL. the showcased filmmaker at
this year's EIFF.
Two years ago one of the most startling entries in the EIFF was Damien Odoul‘s Le Souffle. Strikingly shot in high contrast black and white, and powerfully acted by an entirely non-professional cast. this fever-dream of a film immersed the viewer in the animalistic fantasies of its troubled adolescent protagonist. Shattering the myth of the French countryside as a bucolic idyll. and punctuated with images of sacrifice, it had critics making comparisons to Cocteau, Pialat. Bresson, Truffaut and Borowczyk. but it was also clearly the vision of a singular talent.
The thirtysomething Odoul returns to the Festival with two new films, Errance and After We're Gone. Clearing up a common misconception. he says Le Souffle wasn't actually his debut feature - that was the rarely seen Morasseix!, which he made a decade ago. A fragmented and tragic love story between an Algerian war veteran (Benoit Magimel) and his long- suffering wife (Laetitia Casta). Errance is thus the third work in Odoul‘s autobiographically inspired ‘trilogy of the double’. ‘lt's a heavy film, from beginning to end', he admits. ‘I believe relationships between human beings are complex and to express oneself is very difficult. It's impossible
ever to be truly sincere.‘
But After We ’re Gone promises to be a complete departure for Odoul. It involves a theatre troupe putting on a production about Dionysus. ‘For me
it’s tragi-comedy, a burlesque with a surreal aspect to it,‘
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La Soldatesse 0000 More /lll|ll‘il_ hut never quite enough. This 1905: WWII set drama shows a picture of (ireece during that trnre which is a rrrillion nizles away from the saccharine pleasantness of (iahrrele Salvatores' .‘.4er:rtrwaneri. It focuses on a group of .‘xornen who are forced hy hunger and [XML-ll, to seine in hrothels for the occupying ltalian army. On a long truck Journey the hackgr'uinrfs and real personalities of the '.‘.'<;n‘en hegrn to emerge hut then the .‘:h.r,le (:orrres under attack. Anna Karina starts in this c<>nsurr‘n‘atel‘, executed lirenrh talian and \‘Jest Gerrvan coprodurticr: iPaul Dale. Fir/rmouse 7, 72pm?
Writers Guild Presents Andrew Perle and Prejudice Dawes in (Ltlll.":r“3éill()lt with Hugh Stoddart lThe Mill on The Floss UGC. 72 Cit/)‘mn.
Document Shorts 1: American Dream Docurrientary shorts fror“ the US, Film/rouse 2, 7pm.
Bafta Interview with Ken Loach Ken Loach chats for (it) rr‘rnutes about his work. influences arid. of course. politics. UGC 2. 3pm.
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Famin Diary (Cronaca familiare) 0... See Friday 22 August Glasgow Fr/rrr Theatre 2. C. 75,0”)
Inside I’m Dancing (working title) ... B‘IT‘:TS.‘J":‘:I tale Of a “if,” Changing friendship between two physically disabled young men steers Clea' of the 0b JIOUS sentimental pitfalls