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Article: Film: A survivor's guide How does Edinburgh do it? Sandwiched between the glam heavyweights of Cannes and Venice, the Scottish film festival still has its gems. TREVOR JOHNSTON selects his hot tickets for 2002
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- The Independent (London, England)
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- August 9, 2002
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The longest continuously running film festival in the world opens
next Wednesday evening. First up is the young Scottish director Lynne
Ramsay's exhilarating Morvern Callar, featuring an extraordinary
performance from Samantha Morton as a young woman finding freedom on
her own terms by posing as the author of her dead boyfriend's novel.
Over the next dozen nights the same event will see eagerly
anticipated new films from the likes of Mike Leigh to Catherine
Breillat and Abbas Kiarostami; glamorous visitors including Monica
Bellucci, Terence Stamp and Heather Graham; and everything from the
latest Japanese horrors to Sweden's Sixties new wave. Yes, in its
56th year, the Edinburgh ...