Matt Palmer’s Scottish thriller took the top honours at Edinburgh, and proves an enterprising and interesting reworking of genre conventions
The winner this year of the Michael Powell Award for best British Feature at the at the Edinburgh film festival (a surprisingly rare achievement for a Scottish film), this Highlands-set thriller reworks the hoary old standby: the hapless-urban-travellers-vs-angry-locals conceit. On a beat-by-beat basis, writer-director Matt Palmer’s feature debut skates close to the edge of cliche – only to swerve suddenly in an interesting new direction almost every time. It makes for a work that feels simultaneously familiar and fresh, just like a good, solid bout of genre-tweaking should do.
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