Summer is meaning of festival season in Europe and for who never went to a Festival is difficult to decide where to go. As selections criteria, there’s the practical ones who choose by the price, that in this days of crises fear is for sure a fact to be considered, and there’s the ones who can choose by taste independent of price, that is much more interesting , but is not everybody who is able to afford it.
So goes here a tip that join “the useful to the pleasant”, at least for who loves movies. The Edinburgh International Film Festival is a great option for who want to be updated with the best of world cinema and save with cinema tickets, because in the Festival you can watch series of movies in one same session.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival was born together with the Edinburgh International Festival. Both exist since 1947 and the EIFF was one of the film festival industry pioneers. Considered one of the world festivals more loved by the audience, the event is a key attraction for Edinburgh as well. In the recent years, it has emphasis on discover of new national and international talents brilliantly innovating the movie scene with new directors from the Independent industry.
There is a wide range of movies to be shown and this year the most commented by the English newspapers are “Away we go” from Sam Mendes (director of the award winner “American Beauty“), “Giallo“ with the actor Adrien Brody from “The pianist“, “The girlfriend experience” from the director Steven Soderbergh bringing as an actress a girl that started as a sex star with 16 years old, “Spread“ that brings Ashton Kutcher as a male gigolo, “Boogie Woogie” a smart satire, “Romeo & Juliet Vs The living dead” for the bizarre comic lovers and more. If you just loved the movie “March of the Penguins” you will be anxious to see “The Crimson Wing”. Beside the fact that it’s a kind of copy that disney made, is still a beautiful movie that documents the life cycle of the flamingos in Tanzania.
However, if you are an enthusiastic for English cinema like me go for “A Boy Called Dad” from Brian Percival, promised to cause emotion, “Kicks“ from Lindy Heymman about fanaticalness, “Fish Tank“ from “Red Road“ director Andrea Arnold, “Isolation“ about a quarter of British ex-soldier that are homeless today, “Running in Trafic”, a clever drama by Darle Corlett and “No Greater Love“ from Michael Whyte that allows us inside the Monastery of Notting Hill. There‘s two interesting English movies featuring rock bands: “All Tomorrow Parties” from Jonathan Caouette bringing “Belle and Sebastian” and “Le Donk & Scorz-ayz-ee“, from Shane Meadows, director of “Somer Tows” and “This is England” bringing “The Artic Monkeys”. Beside that “Away we Go“, “Giallo“ and Boogie “Woogie” are English movies as well and, how I said before, are between the ones most expected.
Perhaps, one of the English movies will specially call your attention, mainly if you appreciated “Bale de Rua“ last May in Barbican. “Only When I Dance” from Beadie Finzi is a real story about two gifted, but poor, Brazilians teenagers whose dreams are to dance Ballet. To escape theirs impoverished lives in “Complexo do Alemao“, one of the most violent favelas in Rio, their families will fight for the money needed to keep their children’s dreams alive. The group “Bale de Rua” surged from the similar background and passed by many hard problems as well before being recognized at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
MUST SEE
“Garapa”, by Brazilian director Jose Padilha, is hard, sad and hurts, mainly if you are a Brazilian. The director, Jose Padilha, achieved the international success with the movies “Bus 174”, drama based on real events about a bus hijacked by a delinquent in Rio and “The Elite Squad”, a semi-fictional account of the Special Police Operations Battalion of Rio de Janeiro that won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Showing the hunger and poverty of miserable families, the movie explains that garapa is a solution of sugar and water that sadly is the only aliment that some mums have to give to theirs toddler in Brazil.
The director normally do complex drama structures focused in the personal life drama of the main character. In “The Elite Squad” the movie explains how is shaped the personality of a violent police man and how he justify for himself his violence. In “Bus 174”, the movie explains how the personality of a street teenager was shaped, turning him into so violent to the point of go armed assaulting a bus. In the same line, “Garapa” comes from the perspective of the main characters, is a movie about hunger from the perspective of those who face it. With honesty approach, Jose Padilha invite the world to face this tough subject. Interviewed by Tribeca Film Festival in April, the director said that, financially, the movie belongs to the families so, probably, they’ll be benefited from ticket sells, a good incentive to watch.
*Edinburgh International Film Festival goes from 17 to 28 of June
So goes here a tip that join “the useful to the pleasant”, at least for who loves movies. The Edinburgh International Film Festival is a great option for who want to be updated with the best of world cinema and save with cinema tickets, because in the Festival you can watch series of movies in one same session.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival was born together with the Edinburgh International Festival. Both exist since 1947 and the EIFF was one of the film festival industry pioneers. Considered one of the world festivals more loved by the audience, the event is a key attraction for Edinburgh as well. In the recent years, it has emphasis on discover of new national and international talents brilliantly innovating the movie scene with new directors from the Independent industry.
There is a wide range of movies to be shown and this year the most commented by the English newspapers are “Away we go” from Sam Mendes (director of the award winner “American Beauty“), “Giallo“ with the actor Adrien Brody from “The pianist“, “The girlfriend experience” from the director Steven Soderbergh bringing as an actress a girl that started as a sex star with 16 years old, “Spread“ that brings Ashton Kutcher as a male gigolo, “Boogie Woogie” a smart satire, “Romeo & Juliet Vs The living dead” for the bizarre comic lovers and more. If you just loved the movie “March of the Penguins” you will be anxious to see “The Crimson Wing”. Beside the fact that it’s a kind of copy that disney made, is still a beautiful movie that documents the life cycle of the flamingos in Tanzania.
However, if you are an enthusiastic for English cinema like me go for “A Boy Called Dad” from Brian Percival, promised to cause emotion, “Kicks“ from Lindy Heymman about fanaticalness, “Fish Tank“ from “Red Road“ director Andrea Arnold, “Isolation“ about a quarter of British ex-soldier that are homeless today, “Running in Trafic”, a clever drama by Darle Corlett and “No Greater Love“ from Michael Whyte that allows us inside the Monastery of Notting Hill. There‘s two interesting English movies featuring rock bands: “All Tomorrow Parties” from Jonathan Caouette bringing “Belle and Sebastian” and “Le Donk & Scorz-ayz-ee“, from Shane Meadows, director of “Somer Tows” and “This is England” bringing “The Artic Monkeys”. Beside that “Away we Go“, “Giallo“ and Boogie “Woogie” are English movies as well and, how I said before, are between the ones most expected.
Perhaps, one of the English movies will specially call your attention, mainly if you appreciated “Bale de Rua“ last May in Barbican. “Only When I Dance” from Beadie Finzi is a real story about two gifted, but poor, Brazilians teenagers whose dreams are to dance Ballet. To escape theirs impoverished lives in “Complexo do Alemao“, one of the most violent favelas in Rio, their families will fight for the money needed to keep their children’s dreams alive. The group “Bale de Rua” surged from the similar background and passed by many hard problems as well before being recognized at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
MUST SEE
“Garapa”, by Brazilian director Jose Padilha, is hard, sad and hurts, mainly if you are a Brazilian. The director, Jose Padilha, achieved the international success with the movies “Bus 174”, drama based on real events about a bus hijacked by a delinquent in Rio and “The Elite Squad”, a semi-fictional account of the Special Police Operations Battalion of Rio de Janeiro that won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Showing the hunger and poverty of miserable families, the movie explains that garapa is a solution of sugar and water that sadly is the only aliment that some mums have to give to theirs toddler in Brazil.
The director normally do complex drama structures focused in the personal life drama of the main character. In “The Elite Squad” the movie explains how is shaped the personality of a violent police man and how he justify for himself his violence. In “Bus 174”, the movie explains how the personality of a street teenager was shaped, turning him into so violent to the point of go armed assaulting a bus. In the same line, “Garapa” comes from the perspective of the main characters, is a movie about hunger from the perspective of those who face it. With honesty approach, Jose Padilha invite the world to face this tough subject. Interviewed by Tribeca Film Festival in April, the director said that, financially, the movie belongs to the families so, probably, they’ll be benefited from ticket sells, a good incentive to watch.
*Edinburgh International Film Festival goes from 17 to 28 of June
