In London screening rooms this week, the most memorable image was of Dominic Cooper demonstrating his serious acting chops in
The Devil's Double, the violent true story of Latif Yahia's life as a stand-in for the notoriously violent Uday Hussein. Other festival movies on show were: Lars von Trier's evocative
Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst, Jodie Foster's offbeat comedy-drama
The Beaver with Mel Gibson, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer in the moving drama
Beginners, and Lee Chang-dong's astonishingly beautiful drama
Poetry.
We also had Aidan Gillen's reunion with Jamie Thraves for the quirky South London drama
Treacle Jr, James Gunn's enjoyably genre-busting superhero drama
Super, Dougray Scott in the scruffy British rom-com
Love's Kitchen, and the darkly moving Italian period romance
Sea Purple.
This week I'm heading to Scotland for the
65th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday night with the Irish action-comedy
The Guard, starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. Of the 17 films already in my EIFF diary, I have David Mackenzie's
Perfect Sense, David Hare's
Page Eight, James Marsh's
Project Nim, and the thriller
Trollhunter. Watch for daily festival blogs starting on Thursday, including observations on this year's revamped and stripped-back EIFF.
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