I thoroughly enjoyed this film! Utterly heartwarming and very well filmed

Have just seen this at the Raindance but gather it is getting a UK wide release spring 2018. Lovely film at so many levels - reminded me in parts of Local Hero - beautiful Scottish countryside and a performance of her life from Sheila Hancock.Other cast are excellent too - Kevin Guthrie is spot on - not overplayed - a man struggling with where is in life.A thought provoking film as to what we should do with our lives.It's a gem.

I saw this at a festival and it was then sent to our offices to look at for business reasons, which I'd better not get into on here. I was so disappointed with this film. As a lover of all things Scottish, and living in L.A I was looking forward to seeing some of Scotland on film, and from that respect I was in luck. Every other shot was a rather bad drone shot of hills. I have the feeling they struggled in the edit and decided that having copious aerial shots would fix the flaws. It didn't. The acting from the cast is actually very good, but they are having to battle a terrible script and huge over sentimental scenes and lines. I imagine it will do well because of the cast but I spent most of my time in the theater cringing and feeling desperately sorry for the actors. Not one to watch if you appreciate good filmmaking and storytelling. They've just thrown money at the visuals to fill in the gaping holes.Such a shame.

"We made this film for an audience" declared director Simon Hunter at the 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival's world premiere of 'Edie'. That begs the question "For who else would you make a film?", but Hunter subsequently explained the intention was to produce a feel-good work, and in that he has certainly succeeded.Newly-widowed after thirty years of nursing a demanding and invalid husband, Edie Moore (Sheila Hancock) is preparing to move into an old people's home when on a whim she decides to attempt a long-held ambition to climb a Scottish mountain. She employs local camping shop owner Jonny (Kevin Guthrie) as her guide and - when it turns out she is not as prepared as she thinks she is - her trainer. The relationship between this odd couple forms much of the film.Nowadays I am more familiar with Hancock through her duties as guest panelist on BBC Radio Four's 'Just a Minute'. But she is still a dominant screen presence, believably conveying Edie's journey from resignation, determination, despair, back again to determination. The script allows Guthrie less scope, although personally I'm happy to just sit and look at him - very few men can look sexy in a beanie hat!Director Hunter over-eggs the pudding at times: the opening scenes featuring Edie's life as a drudge are shot almost exclusively with her dressed in dull beige against a background of constant rain and in rooms blanketed in Stygian darkness (for Heaven's sake, turn the bloody lights on!); while scenes of great emotion are accompanied by about five orchestras' worth of violins. There is more than a hint of soap opera about some aspects of the film (the sub-plot involving Jonny's girlfriend's quest for a bank loan could easily have been deleted with no loss to the viewer). But overall this is an enjoyable film and I shall probably look at it again when it turns up on television.