Jauja (N/C 15+)
four stars
Dir: Lisandro Alonso
With: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Norby
Runtime: 108 minutes
LEGEND has it that the Jauja of the title is a land of happiness that all seek but few can find. What that has to do with the tale of a Danish engineer (Viggo Mortensen) living in 1880s Patagonia with his daughter and a band of soldiers is yours to guess at and discover in this decidedly weird, yet rather wonderful, meditation on life, time and love by Lisandro Alonso. Prepare to scratch thy head.
GFT, tonight (6.20pm); tomorrow (1pm)
I Can Quit Whenever I Want (N/C 15+)
three stars
Dir: Sydney Sibilia
With: Edoardo Leo, Stefano Fresi
Runtime: 100 minutes
PIETRO is a university lecturer in modern, Euro-strapped Italy. Underpaid, overworked and facing a future that is only going to get worse, he alights upon a scheme to get rich quick using his scientific knowledge. Now he and his fellow academics are in a new, more lucrative, recession-proof sector of the drug business, but can they hack it? There is more than a whiff of Breaking Bad about this Italian comedy, but it is played with gusto and wit and stylishly done.
CCA, tonight (6.15pm); GFT tomorrow (3.30pm)
Coming Home (N/C 12+)
four stars
Dir: Zhang Yimou
With: Gong Li, Chen Daoming
Runtime: 109 minutes
CHINA, the Cultural Revolution, and a society convulsed. Lu (Chen Daoming) has been sent away for re-education, leaving behind a wife (Gong Li) and daughter, the latter only too keen to denounce him as an enemy of the party. The revolution finally declared over, Lu is free to return to his loved ones, but once there he finds a home changed forever. Zhang Yimou's drama is a sweeping portrait of a nation in flux, combined with a beautifully understated, very moving domestic drama with the brilliant Li at its core as the wife who cannot keep up with the changing times.
GFT, Saturday, February 28 (6pm); Sunday, March 1 (4.45pm)
Small Faces (15)
four stars
Dir: Gillies MacKinnon
With: Joe McFadden, Laura Fraser
Runtime: 104 minutes
WHAT better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than with a swagger down memory lane, all the way back to 1996, with Gillies MacKinnon's classic Scottish drama. It is the 1960s, and Lex (Iain Robertson) has to decide which gang he wants to hang out with - the art student crowd or the boys in bovver boots? Starring many a famous face before they were famous, Gillies MacKinnon's picture has never been bettered as a study of Glasgow's gangland culture. Bonus: members of the cast and crew will attend the screening.
GFT, Sunday, March 1 (2.10pm)
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