{"id":858312,"date":"2026-03-29T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/858312\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:42:20","slug":"rod-whites-guide-to-whats-on-at-filmhouse-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/858312\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod White’s guide to what\u2019s on at Filmhouse in April"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rod White programmes what you can go and see at Filmhouse \u2013 and has done since the reopening in 2025. Here he picks the films to look out for in April for Edinburgh Reporter readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you see three films at Filmhouse this month\u201d could be the name of this column, as I\u2019ve enough space here to do justice to about three I\u2019d say. With the rich variety of cinema contained within the Filmhouse monthly programme, narrowing it down to three is quite the challenge, but I\u2019ll give it a go.<\/p>\n

Returning to my accommodation one evening whilst at the Toronto Film Festival last year, standing in the foyer by the lifts, was one James McAvoy. He was at TIFF world-premiering his debut directorial feature, California Schemin\u2019. <\/p>\n

\"\"Rod PHOTO Kat Gollock<\/p>\n

I introduced myself and, once he\u2019d realised I wasn\u2019t a crazed fan, was very warm and friendly and told me his film \u2013 which tells the true story of Dundonian hip hop duo Silibil N\u2019 Brains who pass themselves off as West Coast (USA) artists to get a recording deal \u2013 had gone down very well at his screening. High-spirited, full of warmth and often very funny, I reckon it\u2019ll go down very well here too!<\/p>\n

Albert Camus\u2019 novella The Stranger (L\u2019\u00e9tranger, 1942) has long been considered \u2013 like many a literary work written in the first-person and \u2018existential\u2019 in nature \u2013 unfilmable, though it has been filmed before. Fran\u00e7ois Ozon beats both previous attempts with his finest film for years. Meursault, a detached and indifferent Frenchman living in colonial Algiers, sets the scene (as to his psychology and personality) with his apparent lack of feeling at the death of his mother\u2026 Among other things, a brilliant evocation of a time and a place.<\/p>\n

A great story well told, Primavera tells of Cecilia, a 20-year-old orphan at the Ospedale della Piet\u00e0, the biggest orphanage in Venice and one in which the most talented of the \u2018in-mates\u2019 are introduced to the study of music. <\/p>\n

A brilliant violinist, Cecilia seems unable to think of the word beyond finding her birth mother and enduring a forthcoming forced marriage, but then Antonio Vivaldi is reinstated as musical director\u2026 Expect great music and violin virtuosity, but don\u2019t expect The Four Seasons, he hadn\u2019t written it yet!<\/p>\n

Rod White has been the film programmer for Filmhouse since it reopened in June 2025, and previously from 2004 to 2022.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Primavera<\/p>\n

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