Foreign-language cinema
Highlights
Below are listings for foreign-language films showing in the Edinburgh Filmhouse and Glasgow Film Theatre.
Other venues which show foreign-language films include the Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, the Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) Cinema, Eden Court, Inverness, the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow and the Alliance Française, Glasgow.
GFT runs a full schools programme throughout the year and offer special screenings, events and programme notes.
Glasgow Film Theatre
Highlights
Rudo and Cursi
Monday 6 - Friday 10 July
Carlos Cuaron I Mexico I 2008 I 1hr 38min I 15 I Spanish
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
Y Tu Mamá También co-stars Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna are reunited on the big screen in Rudo and Cursi, a delightful romp of a comedy drama deftly directed by Carlos Cuarón. Beto (Luna) and Tato (Bernal) are a pair of bickering, dim-witted brothers who work on a dusty banana ranch and play soccer for their local team.
Coco before Chanel
Friday 31 July - Thursday 20 August
Anne Fontaine I France 2009 I 1h 50m I 12A I French with subtitles
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola
Born poor in 1883 in rural France, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel overcame her lack of breeding via a keen eye, forthright manner and revolutionary approach to women’s tailoring that, transformed a gruff peasant girl into the embodiment of chic. The iconic innovator lived to be 87 but this film wisely concentrates on the stretch of time specified in the title, as Chanel struggles to get by, absorbs visual inspiration from her surroundings and unabashedly uses men to get closer to Paris.
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Highlights
Comic Capers (Workshop for 7-10 year olds)
Monday 3 - Friday 7 August, 10-4pm each day
An exciting opportunity to learn how to develop cartoons with Malcy Duff, who has been described as 'Scotland's greatest living cartoonist'. You will create a character from the depths of your imagination and send it on various (mis) adventures. By the end of the week you will have your own comic strip to take home.
Further details can be found on the Filmhouse website.
Red Cliff (Chi bi)
Fri 24 Jul to Thu 30 Jul
John Woo I China 2008 I 148 min I 15I Mandarin with English subtitles
Cast: Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Vicki Zhao.
China circa 208 AD, near the end of the Han Dynasty. General Cao Cao and his 800,000 strong army in northern China look to expand their power. The smaller states of Shu and Wu in southern China find themselves in a precarious state. Strategist and scholar Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) from the Shu state reaches out to Wu leader Sun Quan (Chen Chang), proposing that the Shu and Wu form an alliance against the much larger General Cao Cao’s army.