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“'8 n0! 5 & M 818m. Filmhouse. day's painting to Gabriel Yared‘s

I Toultl Bouki (PG) (Djibril thrashing soundtrack and eating as much

Diop-Mambety. Senegal, 1973) 95 paint as he gets on canvas. Cinematically it

minutes. With a title that translates as The might have its moments. but essentially

Hyena's Journey. this Senegalese offering this is art history as a tabloid journalist

follows two children on an odyssey might see it. Glasgow: GET. Edinburgh:

towards the promised land of Western Cameo.

riches in France. Director Mambety has I Virgin (18) (Catherine Breillat. France.

explained that it's 'about Africans sick 1988) Delphine Zentout. Etienne Chicot.

with the idea of Europe. Africans who Olivier Parniere. 88 mins. Fourteen

consider that Europe is the door ofAfrica i year-old Zentout is on holiday with her

and that it‘s necessary to have been there family. and attempts to dissipate her

in order to be able to come back and be ' boredom with a taste of the local nightlife.

highly thought of‘. Edinburgh: Filmhouse. She meets up with seedy forty-year-old

I Treasure Island (PG) (Fraser Heston. lounge-lizard Chicot. who is out to seduce

US/UK. 1990) Charlton Heston. Christian her. while she remains ambivalent about

Bale. Christopher Lee. 133 mins. Well. the loss of her virginity. Uncomfortany

shiver me timbers if it ain't Cap'n Heston realistic but unexploitative exploration of

pcre with only one leg and a parrot pubescent sexuality. Glasgow: GFI‘.

hamming away in this new version ofthe I The War at the Roses ( 15) (Danny

Robert Louis Stevenson tale. And blow DeVito. US. 1989) Michael Douglas.

me if it ain't that Master Bale from Empire Kathleen Turner. Danny DeVito,

of The Sun in the role ofJim lad. More Marianne Sagebrecht. ll6 mins. DeVito‘s

than that we daren't say. except to add second movie is a searineg bleak.

that our critical black spot is on its way to anti-divorce comedy. in which his old

writer/producer/director Heston fils. care collaborators Douglas and Turner play

ofthe Admiral Benbow sushi bar. Oliver and Barbara Rose. an idyllic happy

Burbank. Glasgow: Cannon Clarkston couple who turn vicious when their

Road. Salon. Edinburgh: Dominion. marriage turns sour. lt shares with their

Central: Allanpark. Caledonian. Cannon. earlier Throw Momma From the Train a

Strathclyde: Cannon. Kelburne. Odeon delight in nastiness and a l litchcokian

Ayr. UCI Clydebank. UCI East Kilbride. control ofimage and tension. The wee

I Tremors ( 15) (Ron Underwood. US. man himselftakes an unusually straight

1989) Fred Ward. Kevin Bacon. Finn cameo role as the lawyer trying to prevent

Carter. 96 mins. See review. Glasgow: disaster. A truckload ofuncomfortable

Cannon Sauchiehall Street. Edinburgh: laughs. Edinburgh: Cameo.

Cannon. Strathclyde: UCl Clydebank. I Wand Kuuni (Gaston J.M. Kabore.

UCl East Kilbride. Upper Volta. 1982) Serge Yanago. Rosine

I Vincent and Theo (15) (Robert Altman. Yanago. Joseph Nikiema. 7() mins. This

UK/Netherlands. 1990) Tim Roth. Paul simple folk tale is the story ofa young mafia“

Rhys. 14(lmins. The obsession with Van mute boy who dreamsofhis speech mm. gaz‘tt‘gmamfiwgmfi;.mi'wgzflrmrxfif;m _ _. mm...“ I .

Gogh‘s art and madness manifests itself returning to him whilst in the meantime ' “'“Tmfiihmm " “wmum "mmw

again as Robert Altman ponderously and leading an easy life tending goats for his

at undue length traces Vincent's frustrated adopted parents. In this allegory ofthe 6 J U LY

Earetfir anT?‘W()r¥lnng{Clfglolnsththtl:. t Effectson thelAfrican heritagelby bl r0 er co. m o p ays C ar is as uropean co omsation. a s oe ' ena es w

ademcnted clown.stomping off fora the boyto regain his speech andthus

The new film from the director of ‘WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWNT

69 “A PLEASURE To WATCH...

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COMPELLING To WATCH:

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MOVIES SEENAT

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From JULY 12

EDINBURGH FILM HOUSE

The List 29June— 12 July 199031