{"id":1154054,"date":"2026-08-17T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1154054\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:27:13","slug":"borges-and-me-sells-out-in-edinburgh-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1154054\/","title":{"rendered":"Borges and Me sells out in Edinburgh launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A movie which features Kilcreggan Pier and the Waverley paddle steamer has had a sellout premier at the Edinburgh Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Part of Kilcreggan was transformed into the Orkney town of Stromness when Borges and Me was filmed there in 2024, with the Waverley being chartered for the occasion.<\/p>\n

The film, a romantic account of a road trip across the highlands with the famous Argentinian writer, opened in Edinburgh on Saturday and was described as having\u2019 great sweetness and high-minded, unworldly charm\u2019 in a review in the Guardian<\/a>, while Deadline News said it was \u2018smart, literary and playful\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As well as the pier and the Waverley, the film also starred Alan Cumming, Fionn Whitehead, Freya Mavor, John Gordon Sinclair, Luis Gnecco, Morven Christie and Peter Mullan and Stuart Bowman.<\/p>\n

It tells how the brilliant, blind Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is chauffeured through Scotland in 1970.<\/p>\n

It is directed by Marc Turtletaub and financed by Big Beach, with producers including Alex Polunin from Ossian International in the UK.<\/p>\n

These photographs are by courtesy of John Beveridge and Gavin Walker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A movie which features Kilcreggan Pier and the Waverley paddle steamer has had a sellout premier at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1154055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[313958,313959,748,1102,3063,47345,220994,4884,254218,33112,112711,6080,712,313960,16,15,121443],"class_list":["post-1154054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-borges","tag-borges-and-me","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-film","tag-film-festival","tag-filming","tag-great-britain","tag-kilcreggan","tag-pier","tag-premiere","tag-review","tag-scotland","tag-stromness","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-waverley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117112029022058116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}