It Follows (15)
three stars
Dir: David Robert Mitchell
With: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist
Runtime: 100 minutes
TWO new names and faces to watch emerge from this slick and provocative teen horror - director David Robert Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) and Maika Monroe, who plays a young woman who has the date from hell. Jay (Monroe) is about to find, however, that the misery has only just started unless she can find a solution to what dogs her. Mitchell weaves themes (sexuality, promiscuity, the pressure to fit in) and chills together to make a picture that is disconcertingly otherworldly yet at the same time, being a teen horror, strangely familiar. A smart spin on the usual fare, and on the strength of their performances here you'll be seeing star and director again.
White God (15)
four stars
Dir: Kornel Mundruczo
With: Zsofia Psotta, Lili Horvath
Runtime: 121 minutes
LILI and her dog Hagen are best friends forever, but her father is none too enamoured of the hound when he realises he has to pay a special mongrel tax. Out goes Hagen onto the streets of Budapest, where he must learn to fend for himself in an increasingly hostile world where cruelty against outsiders, the old and the vulnerable is becoming accepted behaviour. Kornel Mundruczo's drama can be interpreted many ways, political and otherwise, but it is also a thrilling and deeply moving action adventure featuring a cast of more than 200 dogs. A true original.
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, February 27-March 5; Glasgow Film Theatre, March 3-5
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (12A)
three stars
Dir: David Zellner
With: Rinko Kikuchi, Shirley Venard
Runtime: 105 minutes
KUMIKO is depressed and overwhelmed. Shuffling between her flat in Tokyo and a job that means nothing to her, her life seems to be heading nowhere. Until, that is, she discovers an old VHS of Fargo. Believing the "this is a true story" legend to be true, she embarks on a treasure hunt of her own. The ever-excellent Rinko Kikuchi plays Kumiko so convincingly one never doubts for a second that this young woman is utterly lost in her own world, playing by different rules.
Glasgow Film Theatre, March 3-5
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