Song to Song (15) ***
Dir: Terrence Malick
With: Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara
Runtime: 129 minutes
IT has been only too tempting to regard Terrence Malick’s recent films (To the Wonder, Knight of Cups), with their gorgeous settings, handsome casts, and minimal dialogue, as bordering on perfume ads with knobs on. This love triangle drama, set in the music scene in Malick’s beloved Texas, seems at first like more of the same. It does indeed have beautiful people in the shape of Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara (playing a rockstar and his songwriter girlfriend) and Michael Fassbender as the Faustian agent who promises them the world, but it also has something resembling a story and celebrity cameos besides.
GFT July 7-13; Filmhouse, Edinburgh, July 14-20
Tommy’s Honour (PG) **
Dir: Jason Connery
With: Jack Lowden, Peter Mullan
Runtime: 112 minutes
A DRAMA about the early years of golf, made in Scotland and directed by the son of Shir Shean himself: what could be more Scottish? Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden star as the real-life Tom and Tommy Morris, the father and son players who helped to shape the multi-million pound game as seen on TV screens today. While Lowden (War and Peace) and Mullan turn in watchable performances, some of the rest of the acting is as wooden as the clubs and the budget limitations are only too obvious. Strictly for golf fans, though given the dullness of the piece even they may consider this a good walk to the cinema spoiled.
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