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Glas­gow Film Fes­ti­val 2017 open­ing and clos­ing films announced

05 Jan 2017

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A man and a woman sitting together in a room, looking at the camera. The woman has blonde hair and is wearing a checked shirt, while the man has dark hair and is wearing a dark jacket.
A man and a woman sitting together in a room, looking at the camera. The woman has blonde hair and is wearing a checked shirt, while the man has dark hair and is wearing a dark jacket.
David Ten­nant is set to close out the 2017 fes­ti­val in a biopic of the philoso­pher RD Laing.

Glas­gow is fast becom­ing one of the UK’s most beloved film fes­ti­vals, a result of its thought­ful, inclu­sive pro­gram­ming and the fact that it is fuelled by a real sense of pur­pose and iden­ti­ty. The 2017 edi­tion, which kicks off on the 15 Feb­ru­ary and runs through to the 26, will open with a screen­ing of the film Hand­some Dev­il by direc­tor John But­ler, a nos­tal­gic, crowd-pleas­ing account of one man’s event­ful upbring­ing in an Irish board­ing school and the rela­tion­ship that blos­soms between him and one of his stu­dent cohorts.

And, eleven days down the line, all the movie fun will be book­marked with a world pre­mière screen­ing of the film Mad to be Nor­mal, a biog­ra­phy of the philoso­pher RD Laing most famous for the 1960 tome The Divid­ed Self and who ded­i­cat­ed his life to explor­ing the behav­iour­al intri­ca­cies of psy­chosis. Bound­ing up the red car­pet will be David Ten­nant, who plays the lead, and he’ll be joined on screen by co-stars Eliz­a­beth Moss, Michael Gam­bon and Gabriel Byrne.

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Else­where in the fes­ti­val, there will be a posthu­mous salute to the intel­lec­tu­al pow­er­house John Berg­er with a screen­ing of the film The Sea­sons in Quin­cy: Four Por­traits of John Berg­er – a pas­sion project involv­ing Til­da Swin­ton, Col­in Mac­Cabe and Christo­pher Roth. Look out for more announce­ments in the com­ing week, but this ini­tial tranche of titles has cer­tain­ly whet­ted our appetite.

The 2017 Glas­gow Film Fes­ti­val runs from the 15 – 26 Feb­ru­ary glas​gow​film​.org

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