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1 Andrea Gibb (pictured) No relation to the Bee Gees, Gibb lAfterLife. Dear Frankie) is one of Scotland's most prolific and successful screenwriters. She Will be chairing this event/debate which looks at the success of Scottish literature in its many adaptations on the big screen.
2 Peter Jinks The author of Hal/am Foe. the film verSion of which opens this year's EIFF and
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new artistic director, is forging stronger links With the Edinburgh International Book Festival. With stronger writing themes also running through this year's List- sponsored Anita Loos Retrospective. this could be a rewarding partnership that could run and run.
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his previous work. But, while Hallam Foe is no less compellingly perverse than. say, Mackenzie's excellent adaptation of Alex Trocchi’s beat novel Young Adam, which opened the festival in 2003, it’s a far more upbeat, humorous affair — a rom-com its maker not altogether inaccurately calls it - and as such it's a much better opening night prospect.
The titular hero (superbly played by Jamie Bell, flawless Scots accent and all) is an oddball young man who’s styled himself as a feral loner following the death of his beloved mother and the arrival in the Highlands family home of his father‘s new, and, Hallam believes, gold-digging girlfriend. An erotic encounter with the wicked stepmother prompts the boy to run away from home, to Edinburgh where he takes a job and meets
a woman (Sophia Myles. also superb) who bears a bizarre resemblance to la.- "6' im' ' :1“ scrap about rubbish Scottish films. his dead parent. .til . i; " 'f. i’:’.l‘ rxr; If you are in the audience why not Insane kids and incest might not seem the stuff of rom-com, but " ' : .i " .. : .'. .2" i; start the debate. Mackenzie treats the potentially disturbing material as a sweet romance ‘ w» «. " :4. ' iii/[w " ' w '. I: 5 Michad Cain, 'Am I no a filtered through black comedy. The unusual use of Edinburgh locations . z-w \ ~ '- -' 'r ,‘u Mar :: bonny fightefl' has got to be me (mostly rooftops thanks to Hallam’s penchant for wall-crawling), Giles f ~ “f : ' ‘r' my worst me ever delivered in a film Nuttgens‘ luminous cinematography. a breezy pop soundtrack comprised é' " = " m-x ' ' '3 :: based on a great Scottish nove| in entirely of Domino Records releases, and a series of priceless turns from ' ~:' 3: r s :i' “l ';.i '. the 1971 version OfK/dnapped, the support — Ciaran Hinds. Jamie Sives, Maurice Roéves, Ewen Bremner ‘.' l : ' :.' ’: ' :1. ' ; ’x :a-r: ' er Panel, please debate, (Paul Dale) and Claire Forlani - ensure Hallam Foe is a real joy to behold. f ': :,::’;’;::i3w .'.’-'.- r' C I Cinewor/d, 623 8030, 76 Aug. (Miles Fielder) " " x z: ' "';-~;..‘TV:' Vb”: 3"": 2pm, £6.50 (£4.55).
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