I read some pretty bad reviews of this film before seeing it tonight so I wasn't sure what to expect. Very pleasantly surprised! One too many superfluous crotch shots for my taste, but it was a fun, entertaining way to pass a couple of hours, with good performances especially from Alan Cumming & Jaime Winstone. It was also worth showing up to see Alan Cumming's kilt this evening - superb!

Eh what was this all about then. Sorry this didn't rock my boat. Its not something I'd recommend unless you have an empathy with the art world, although I will give you that Alan Cumming does play a good part ,albeit it felt like a serious take on the manic comic style from the early years. With such a great cast its almost a waste of talent though I can't imagine it was made to rack in the ticket sales.

There is little daring or accomplished about this debut from Duncan Ward.

Unless one defines daring as persuading Jamie Winstone to show us her boobs...oh, but she did that in last years disappointing Brit-flick "Donkey Punch". Perhaps then by daring we mean encouraging a fine actor like Danny Huston to give us a caricature of the caricature he played in "Ivans XTC" is that daring or simply a criminal use of one of the best actors of our time?

I don't know that anything here was daring...we've seen these sort of satirical looks at the world of Artistic endeavor before in "Pret" and "The Player" and both of those films were genuinely daring and accomplished. There was no new ground broken here.

Accomplished doesn't just mean having lots of big names in a film. If that was the case then "Independence Day" would have been hailed as an "accomplished" piece of film making instead of as a big budget toy advert.

Accomplished doesn't just mean having lots of big names in a film. If that was the case then "Independence Day" would have been hailed as an "accomplished" piece of film making instead of as a big budget toy advert.

Maybe the fact that the YBA provided us with a real-life, technicolour satire on the savagery of the Art world means that this film already feels dated...whatever the reason this is not a film that anyone associated with it should take any pride in.

The over-riding emotion is that this was a film made for the people in the film not for an audience.

This film was a very strange experience for me, I can't say it's a film I either enjoyed or disliked. The quality of the acting is superb with some fabulous performances (especially Alan Cummings), but the film just doesn't quite hit the mark. There are so many stories happening at one time none of which give you enough to care about or want to know more to understand, it does feel a little like it's a bit full of its own importance.

The fact that none of the characters are especially likeable is disappointing as some start out a little likeable and loose it very quickly.

All in all not my most enjoyable movie of this years festival.

Boogie Woogie is a very modern film. Sure, it takes no prisoners, but the various levels in the film take on different themes and ideas simultaneously, which is challenging - but the rewards lie in awareness of these layers. I watched this film with great personal enjoyment - there were so many things in it to stimulate the mind and I think a second viewing would be equally rewarding.

The humour wasn't laugh-out-loud at all times, but was continuously present, and brought very much to life by brilliant performances from a wonderful cast.

I highly recommend this film. Thank you, Edinburgh!

Hans

that review was almost as pretentious as the film itself.

Well done.

Paul

Serial rambler and self-appointed windbag Paul Laird spoke truth when he asserted: "as if I am in any way qualified to point out the problems with anyones [sic] Art."

But yet he does not adhere to his own dictum. Like the barbarian who must seek to destroy that which he doesn't understand, he follows his unqualified (by his own admission) criticism with criticism of another's comments. When did this person become the arbiter of Art and Criticism?

It's so easy to find fault in art, and so very difficult to create it. I would like to know what Paul has accomplished that qualifies him to write off a film as unaccomplished. Oh, but he is not in any way qualified.

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent," Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The comments above are far more entertaining than the film,which,to me,seemed a pointless exercise in who could out smug who.Alan Cumming has pedalled tiny variations of that character around for years.But this is only my opinion.I'm sure an utterly unqualified bully like "Hans" did like it. P.S. "Tostov ? "...pseudonym anyone?