The Falling (15)
four stars
Dir: Carol Morley
With: Maisie Williams, Greta Scacchi
Runtime: 100 minutes
CAROL Morley showed she was a British director to look out for with the troubling and unforgettable drama documentary Dreams of a Life. She makes good on that promise with this truly original slice of British bizarreness. The ultra talented Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) is the teenager at the centre of a whirl of hysteria which befalls the school, much to the dismay of her mother (Maxine Peake) and the staff. Morley and her cast manage to balance the funny with the tragic, the disturbing with the charming, to deliver a picture unlike anything else you are likely to see this year.
Glasgow Film Theatre, April 24-30
Bypass (15)
three stars
Dir: Duane Hopkins
With: George MacKay, Arabella Arnott
Runtime: 105 minutes
GEORGE MacKay (Pride, How I Live Now) is Tim, a young man with the universe on his shoulders now that mum has died, dad has left, his older brother is in the nick and his younger sister is playing truant. Writer-director Duane Hopkins' drama surveys the state of modern Britain and does not like a lot of what it sees. Imaginatively rendered, if over generous on the misery.
Glasgow Film Theatre, April 24-26; Filmhouse Edinburgh, May 7
Harlock Space Pirate (3D) (12A)
two stars
Dir: Shinji Aramaki
Voices: David Matranga, Jessica Boone
Runtime: 111 minutes
IF you have been desperate to see Matsumoto's three decades old Manga classic reimagined for the Noughties, then tomorrow is your lucky day. If not, Shinji Aramaki's future set animated adventure, with its multi-layered tale of pirates, galactic intrigue and an Earth declared out of bounds, will be likely be utterly baffling. Aramaki's picture, a cross between Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, the X-Men and just about every other teen touchstone picture, looks the part but it possesses all the empty charm of a video game.
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