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Suicide Prevention Week
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I was a Fireman (U) mo (llumphrcy Jcnnings. UK. 1942) Philip Dickson. (icorgt‘ (iravctt. l'lrt'tl (irifl-Illh. Johnny lloughton. bSmin. A lyrical culog) to thc rcxilicncc and liL‘rUhlll of thc National l-‘irc Scrviccs during thc London blitl. Shown licrc with Jcnnings' slitinx 'I'lic Firs! Dun and ll'c'l/kirc’ oft/iv lliirki'n. I‘iliiiliouxi'. I'kliithitrgli.
it’s a Free World . . .(lb’) (Kcn l.oach, UK. 2007) Kicrston Warcing. Julict lillis. l.c,\|aw Zurck. 03min. thn \inglc tnum Angic finds hcrsclfioblcxx. \hc xcts tip a rccniitmcnt agcncy with licr llatmatc Rosc. placing migrants from abroad iii casual labour. But shc is \oon forch to dccidc whcn cutrcprcncurialism bccomcx cxploitation, in this cxamination of \ocial frailty and injusticc. Kcn l.oach and Paul Lavcrty will tll\Cll.\.\ thc lilttl \‘itt li\‘c satcllitc aftcr thc \crccning. (iluxgnu‘ I'i/In 'I‘Iii'utn'. Glasgow; ('unii'o. Inklinliurgh. Klimt ( l8) «0 (Raoul Riiil. Atistria/Franchicrmany /l7K. 3000) John Malkovich. Saffron Burrows. Stcphcn Dillanc. 97min. Malkovich attacks with gusto a lavish biopic of thc Vicnnckc Paintcr Gustav Klimt. Bcginning with hix dying days in a sanatorium. lhc film aspircx to thc llaiiiboyancc and stylc of Klimt'x own work. film/rotor. Edinburgh.
Knife in the Read ( I8) (Rt-inhartt llautf. (icniian); I978) Bruno (ianl. Aiigcla Winklcr. Hans llonig. l l3niin. A biogcncticist ts accidcntl)’ shol In thc hcatl by policc. but although hc \urviwx. hc loscs his mcmory and ix brandcd a tcrrorixt A chilling psycho-imlitical thrtllcr. with a tremendous ccntral [X‘rfortttancc b) (ian/ its the man trying to piccc togcthcr hl\ past life. Part of (icnnany. Autumn W77 season. Filliihousi'. Edinburgh.
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Two very different films drawing on themes of personal desperation and suicidal feelings form a part of this commendable initiative that seeks to stem the huge rise in suicide in Scotland in the last decade. Eric Steel‘s uneasy documentary The Bridge about the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world will be followed by a discussion by Edinburgh’s Choose Life coordinator Sandra de Munoz and Professor Stephen Platt, director of the research unit in Health, Behaviour and Change at Edinburgh University. A few days later the Frank Cottrell Boyce scripted allotment therapy comedy Grow Your Own (pictured) will be followed by a discussion led by members of Redhall Walled Garden, 3 mental health initiative based in the capital. This screening is free.
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Paris Je t’aime 1 IS) 000 (\iirmux. l'rancc. 300m Stcx c liuxccmi. (icna Rowlandx. Nick Noltc l30niin. A portniantcau work lcaturing foc-tiunutc \hortx (with thc \tarricst ol casts) from 3| intcrnattonal tllft'c‘ltih to crcatc a cincitialic lo\c lcli'cr to Part» 'llllt' rcuillx. cach \L'l tn onc of l’arix‘x lts’ adminixtratixc tlixtrictx. arc \cr} hit itlltl-llll\\ Vinccn/o Natali'x \ampircx and S} l\;llll ('homct'x mimc-artixtx dixappoint. whilc :‘xlcxandcr l’a}nc. thc ('ocn brothcrs and (Hon Schuiit/‘x cllortx \lllnc ('(mu'n, lit/Ill/HlfL'h
Premonition i IZA) O. iMcnnan Yapo. l'S. 2007) Sandra Bullock. Julian McMahon. Nia Long ‘)(imin llappy landa Hanson (Bullock) rcccixcx nch that hcr lilhl‘ulltl Jim (McMahon) has dicd in a car accidcnt. thcn wakcx tip thc following morning to find that hcr huxband is wry much alix'c, A blatant but uncrcditcd rcmakc of Norio Tsurutu's 2004 J-borror. l Watchablc nonxcnxc. Vlll’ Edinburgh ()t mm. [film/rurth