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The Sixth Sense ( IS) .000 (M. Night Shyamalan. l'S. l‘)‘)‘)) Bruce Willis. llaley Joel ()sment. ()liy'ia Williams. Toni ('ollettc. lll7min. Nine- ycar-old (‘ole Sear (()sment) has a terrible secret. He can see the dead walking the earth; they're around him all the time and it's scary as hell. ('hild psychologist Malcolm (‘rowe (Willis) takes his case and spends all ol his time. at the expense ol his marriage to Anna (()liy ia Williams). attempting to help the boy: Shyamalan's cley er script suggests much and explains little. keeping the audience guessing. (177/; (i/uygmi.
Solarls l IZA) C... (Steycn Soderbergh. l'S. 2003) (ieorge (‘looney. Natascha Mclillione. ‘)‘)min. This truncated. but still very effective new \'L'r\lt)tt of the novel by Stanislaw Lem demonstrates the enormous versatility ol Stey'en Soderbergh. llis screenplay compresses the first hour of Tarkoysky's l‘)72 lilm into ten minutes. sending psychologist Kelvin ((ieorgc (’looney in tremendous form) off to the troubled space station orbiting the planet of the title early on. Here. he is affected by a debilitating neurosis. as his wife Rheya (Natascha Mciilhone) who committed suicide years before appears. and is as real as Kely'in himself. It amounts to one of the most thought-proyoking and moving films of the year. OF]: Glasgow. Le Souffle (Deep Breath) ( IS) 0... (Damien ()doul. l‘rance. 2()()l) l’ierre-l.ouis Bonnetblanc. Dominique
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(‘heyalieL Masime Dalbrut. 77min. Boldly switching from reserie to nightmare. ()doul's debut follows a turbulent day in the life of 15-year-old Day id (Bonnetblanc) who is staying at his uncles' sheep farm in the sun-blasted LimoUsin region. ()doul doesn't atteriipt to rationalise the behay mm of his volatile. ltistful protagonist. or to engineer any conyentional catharsis: instead he immerses Us in the youngster's animalistic fantasies and fren/ied perspectiye. Filled with images of sacrifice. and powerfully acted by an entirely non-professional cast. 1.:- Sour/Iv owes a considerable debt to Robert Bresson. yet its visceral \'l\lt)ll of adolescent turmoil and raw masculinity suggests a distinctiye directorial talent. See review. I‘i/In/muu'. lz‘drrilmr'gli. Space Station (SD) (PU) it's. 2003) Min tbe. Big screen presentation, IMAX. Glasgow:
The Stranger (Lo Strantero) (cert tbc) (Luehino Visconti. ltaly/Hance/Algeria. 1967) Marcello Mastroianni. Anna Karina. l()4mm. Visconti's adaptation of Albert (‘amus' noy'el received mixed rey'iew's on its first release and has been rarely seen since. (‘amUs' admirers were unhappy that the filmmaker filled in the novel's gaps the psychology of the ‘existential' hero. the Algerian setting although this is. arguably. the film's greatest strength. Flint/mine. Ifr/inhurgli.
Stuart Little 2 (t') 0. (Rob Minkoff. US. 2002) Michael J Fox. (ieena Davis. Hugh Laurie. 77min. The inevitable money-spinning sequel to the unlikely yarn of a small. white mouse adopted by a middle-class New York family. A new playmate for Stuart arrives in the shape of a small canary. who falls into the passenger seat of his toy car as Stuart races through the city streets. Stuart invites his new friend back to his
house. but an eyil falcon is on his tail It doesn't get any more twee than this. The yoices work well enough and the ('(il animation is good. it not adyenturous The problem is that it's distinctly lacking in humour. tor both kids and adults ('(it‘ Park/lull]. (;l(l\L'('ll. Stuart Little it.) .0. (Rob Minkot'l'. IS. 2000) Michael J l'o\. (ieena l)a\is. Hugh Laurie ‘Dmin l.iye action with a computer generated talking mouse \oiccd by Michael J lios. .\linkoll's adaptation oil-1B \Vhite's classic children's book sees the sw ect wee rodent orphan being adopted by affluent Manhattanites the Little lamily. Stuart's problems begin with a new nemesis. the mean-spirited. inappropriately -named family cat Snow bell. The message of the film is clear little guy discoyers the meaning of family. loyalty and friendship but of more interest to \ iew ers both small and large w ill be the [our and Jerry-style antics. ('(i(' Rent/“en Street. Glasgow. La Terra Trema (The Earth Wembles) (l') (l.uchino \‘isconti. ltaly. 19-18) l(i()min. Visconti pushes neo- realism to its limits with this grandiose film about a fishing family struggling to \tlr\'l\'C. which was shot entirely on location in Sicily with local \illagcrs playing themselyes. l-ilm/iouu'. Iz'tlr'ri/iurg/i. To Kill a King ( IZA) O. Barker. l'K. 2003) Rupert liyerett. l)ougray Scott. Tim Roth. ()ilVla Williams. 'l'bcmin. Set in “>45. this historical buddy ltt()\'lC focuses on the increasingly strained friendship between the dashing (‘ommander of the New Model Army Lord Fairfax (Scott) and his puritanical deputy and leader of Parliament ()liy'er ('romw'ell (Roth). who plans to execute King (‘harles (liy'crett ). Aiming for a political thriller on the lines of Elihu/wilt. Barker canters throuin this
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The Tree we Hurt ls‘t‘lt ll‘c‘) (liiinos ,-\\deliodis. (iicece. I‘lSti) ~binin l'his hymn to innocence and lost paradise concerns the toys .iiid sorrow s of a group of children on an island during the summer ol l‘lhtl lrlnilioiiu. I‘n’rIi/imu/i 25th Hour I l5) 0... (Spike l cc. l'S. Zoo‘s) ltd \orton. Rosario Dawson. l’hillip Seymour llollman l§5min Reckoned to be Tee's tL‘qtltctti lot New York. 351/) Hour is the blcakest yarn he's spun tor a w title. but is as much about acknowledging the preciousness ol lite as the mourning ol loss We spend 34 hours with Montgoiiieiy Brogan. a heroin dealer. espertly underplayed by Norton. coming to terms with leaying the following day to start a se\cn-ye.il pl‘lsttlt \L‘lltt‘llL‘C l.ee ltas tlc\t‘l shied away from w eighty stibicct matter. st- it seems appropriate that he should be among the first to present New York in an patently post-WI I enyironmeiit Sr’lrtlc'i/ I‘r’lr’uyr‘.
24 Hour Party People ( Isl oeeee (Michael \Vinteibottom. l'ls'. Illlll) Stey e ('oogan. l’addy (’onsidme. Shirley Henderson. 1 lllmin The whole era/y tale of liactory records. the llacienda and all things .\ladchester is retold by writer l'rank (‘ottrell Boy ce who has done something quite estraordinaiy turned Tony Wilson's dysfunctional adyenture from l‘)7(i to now into a post modern romp that ney er lalscs ilscll too seriously Boy'cc's regular collaborator. Winterbottom. directs like a man possessed by the cotilulttcd spirits ol Jean~l.uc (iodard and Lindsay .-\nderson. and is more than up to the task rising a variety of scratchy. quirky. punky dey ices to tell tales from a cantankerous city l)oublc top. (TA. (iiiiygmi.
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