Film

THURSDAY 2'7 MARCH

STARS!

James van de Beek moves from Dawson ’3 Creek to the controversial Rules ofAttraction

Alan Cumming turns novelist with the sex-mad Tommy’s Tale

STRIPES!

The White Stripes call into Glasgow with their cute red jumpers

Lucienne Day on how her designs became

the pinnacle of 19508 chic

PLUS! National Theatre I RSC Ring Cycle I 1000 Airplanes on the Roof

GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH EVENTS GUIDE

You’ve got 15 days to live

26 THE LIST ‘3 .‘ ‘.l.:'.

MON'DAY'MORNING (LUNDI MATIN) (PG) 120mm 0...

Mais oui, mais non, I like to smoke, it makes me feel free. Georgian Filmmaker Otar losseliani has been making these sort of weird. yawning ‘pastorales‘ since the early 19605, not that we would be aware of that as only about three of the sixteen films he has made in the last forty have ever been shown in the UK.

Vincent (Jaques Bidou) is a welder. He lives in a small French village with his wife and his artistically gifted kids. He goes to work every day at the local factory. He likes to smoke,

STEALING HARVARD (12A) 82min (unable to review at time of going to press)

NAfioNAL SECURITY (12A) 88min (unable to review at time of going to press)

Kooky little gem

but he is not allowed to at work. At home he likes to smoke and paint landscapes, but his wife always has him cleaning out the guttering. Then one day he disappears.

While the catatonic pace may be a problem for some, this is a kooky little gem, laced through and through with absurdisms and incongruities. It is both pointless and poetic. if you are a fan of the work of Greek director Theo Angeloupoulos (Ullysses' Gaze) or Lindsay Anderson (0 Lucky Man!) then this may be your bag of shag (tobacco).

(Paul Dale) II“. 1.,Ail-v_'l.::'

Nice cast

Too crap for cops