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Three films, one story, three different perspectives. This was the beauty of Belgium writer/director Lucas Belvaux's Le Trilogie, one of the great delights of 2003. Fans have been holding their breath for more wickedly angled tales from the city of Liege, and The Right of the Weakest does not disappoint. This tale of low-key criminality has all the charm of Forsyth‘s That Sinking Feeling with all the sturdy respect for the social realist genre we have come to expect from this inventive auteur.
SOUESTIONS
Mitchell Leisen, the subject of this year’s major retrospective at the EIFF died in 1972, but with the help of a medium, we contacted him and had a chinwag.
5 words to describe the film season you have at the Edinburgh International Film Festival l've never even heard of it. YOu need to remember that. having fallen massively but of fashon I seem the last 20 years of my life making shithOLise TV shows. Wagon Train and Shirley Temple's Storybook, no one was ever going invite me anywhere. 4 of your favourite cinemas In the world
The Orpheum in Los Angeles. The Silver Theatre in New York, The Pang Ting in Macao and the Albion Theatre in Michigan.
3 people you would have loved to work with
Mark Twain, Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Wide.
2 films you want to catch yourself at the festival
My own of c0urse. wrth a mooern audience!
1 thing you would love to change about film festivals if you were bestowed with the power to do so? Never really went to one so wouldn't really know. but I'm a great believer that free vodka martinis and the company of beautiful people can make everything better.
I The Mitchell Leisen retrospective continues with Swing High. Swing Low, Fi/mhouse. 7 7 Aug, noon, £5.50 (£4.20).
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FESTIVAL FILM
‘Films have given me an opportunity to do things that normally you‘d be locked up and executed for.’ Lee Marvin.
Ill This Film Is Not Yet Rated Funny but worrying documentary expose of the twisted shenanigans that go on inside the secretive and corrupt Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board. Just go and see it. it's great. Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 20 Aug, 7pm; Cameo. 623 8030, 21 Aug, 9.45pm. £7.95 (£5.20).
III House of Sand Glorious Brazilian desert epic chronicling three generations who live in the remote landscape of Northern Brazil between 1910 and 1969. See review, page 45. Cinewor/d. 623 8030, 79 Aug, 9pm 8 22 Aug, 5pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
* Clerks II Kevin Smith returns to the golden goose to save his withering reputation and just about pulls off a satisfying sequel to his 1994 slacker classic. See feature, page 38. Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 8pm 8 20 Aug. 6pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
# Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Turner Prize winning artist and filmmaker Douglas Gordon's giddying ‘on pitch' portrait of footballer Zidane using 17 cameras. See profile. page 46. Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 6pm 8 22 Aug, 8pm, E 7. 95 (£35.20).
lit The nght of the Weakest Lucas Le Trilogie Belvaux is back with this seamless hybrid of crime caper and social realist drama. set again in the Belgium town of Liege. See Big Picture. left. Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 78 Aug, 7.30pm 8 79 Aug, 9.45pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
It Wristcutters: A Love Story Croatian filmmaker Goran Dukic inventive, ethereal black comedy set in an afterlife colony made up entirely of suicide victims. Undoubtedly the best English language film showing at this year's EIFF. See cult movies panel, page 7??. Cameo, 623 8030, 20 Aug, 70pm 8 21 Aug, 5.30pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
For venue addresses see index page 80.
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