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Best of The Fests

A small selection of highlights from recent film festivals around the world.

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 Friday 9th February 8.30pm (Alhambra)

LES RESSOURCESHUMAINES (Human Resources) (tbc) France 1999 1hr 43 (subtitles)
Dir: Laurent Cantet. Starring: Jalil Laspert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barre.
Highly-regarded at the Edinburgh Festival, and praised by the extremely hard-to-please French critics, Canet's extraordinary debut feature examines the emotional and political impact of social chance. Franck arrives as Director of Human Resources, new broom at the ready, at the factory where his father has worked on the shop-floor for 30 years.
"Human Resources is a masterclass of social realism that easily stands comparison with the best of Ken Loach" Screen International.

 
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 Saturday 10th February 8.30pm (Alhambra)

THE RING (15) Japan 1998 1hr 35 min (subtitles)
Dir: Hideo Nakata. Starring: Nanako Mastushima, Mika Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada.
A cult phenomenon in the Far East, this is a chilling tale of an investigation into rumours that students, having watched a mysterious video, received a phone call telling them that they will die in one week's time. Seven days later they are dead. The investigators find themselves racing against the same deadly deadline.
"It will scare the living hell out of you" Mark Kermode, Sight and Sound.

 
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 Sunday 11th February 8.30pm (Alhambra)

THE WIND WILL CARRY US(Bad ma ra khahad bord)
(U) Iran/France 1999 1hr 58 mins (subtitles)
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. Starring Behzad Dourani, the villagers of Siah Dareh.

Kiarostami reclaims his crown as 'greatest living Iranian film director' - no small tribuTe in the last two years of fine films from that country. This Venice Festival Jury Prize-winning tale of an encounter between westernised sophisticates from Teheran and apparently simple villagers provides a "subtle personal debate about the value of being alive", as the Variety critic put it.
"An eerily flawless masterpiece" Gilbert Adair, Independent on Sunday.

 
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  'The Wind Will Carry Us' stayed with me all week. The article extract by David Walsh has added to my enthusiasm for the film. I cannot describe the excitement of the insight into other lifestyles that I have gained from my first two weeks of membership of the film club.
 
Valerie Hallard

 

 

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