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Anna Karenina
Sun 14 to Thu 18 Oct
Joe Wright • UK/France 2012 • 2h10m • Digital projection
12A – Contains moderate sex, language and brief bloody images
Cast: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Jude
Law, Matthew Macfadyen.
A society woman is torn between loyalty to her husband
and the desires of her heart in this sweeping drama
about love and desire, compromise and adultery, social
mores and self-realisation. Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece of
realist fiction has been adapted for the screen more than
a dozen times, yet it is safe to say that it has never before
been realised with anything close to the imaginative brio
of this latest incarnation from British director Joe Wright.
With a script by playwright and Academy Award®-winning
screenwriter Tom Stoppard, glorious cinematography
by EIFF patron Seamus McGarvey and a stunning
performance by Keira Knightley (collaborating with Wright
for the third time) in the title role, this Anna Karenina is
both a faithful rendering of Tolstoy’s novel and a brilliant
piece of conceptually audacious showmanship.
Berberian Sound Studio
Fri 19 to Wed 24 Oct
Peter Strickland • UK 2012 • 1h32m
Digital projection • English and Italian with English subtitles
15 – Contains sustained psychological threat and references to
sexual violence
Cast: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco, Susanna
Cappellaro, Eugenia Caruso.
In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones)
is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a
gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes
over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film,
a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema.
About Elly Darbareye Elly
Fri 19 to Tue 23 Oct & Thu 25 Oct
Asghar Farhadi • Iran 2009 • 1h58m • Digital projection
Persian and German with English subtitles
12A – Contains moderate violence and threat
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti,
Merila Zare’i, Mani Haghighi.
A superb drama from the director of the multiple-awardwinning
Iranian feature A Separation. Over a weekend at
the seashore, a group of well-to-do young Teheranians
tries to set up their freshly-divorced friend Ahmad with an
amiable yet aloof kindergarten teacher Elly, whom none of
them knows very well. But their relaxed weekend suddenly
takes a dramatic turn when Elly disappears, and various lies
– casual and serious, necessary and unnecessary – come
back to haunt the characters.
Hope Springs
Fri 26, Sat 27, Mon 29, Tue 30 Oct & Thu 1 Nov
David Frankel • USA 2012 • 1h40m • Digital projection
12A – Contains frequent moderate sex references
Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart.
Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a
devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay
wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband.
When she hears of a renowned couples specialist in the small
town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her
sceptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a
plane for a week of marriage therapy. A warm and very funny
comedy with two marvellous performances at its heart.
Screening in association with Relationships Scotland.
Relationship counselling helps people with their
relationships. We can help you to work through
problems in current relationships, explore the effects of
past relationships or look at how to improve and enrich
relationships for the future. We can do this whether
you are in a couple or on your own, regardless of sex,
gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. What’s
important to us is your relationship. If sex (or lack of it)
is the specific problem, sex therapists can help you look
at your sexual relationship and work on how to explore
what is not working and what needs fixing.
Visit www.relationships-scotland.org.uk for details of
counselling services
in all parts of Scotland,
or phone 0845 119 2020.