This film tells the story of Bazil, a man that got his life ruined by two big weapon manufacturer. Indeed, his dad died of a landing explosion when he was a wee boy and, 30 years later, because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time he got caught in the middle of a gang fight and got shot by accident. The bullet didn’t killed him but stayed in his head and have now a chance to kill him anytime. Having lost home and work, he starts a new life in the street and meets some unusual friends. With them he will seek revenge against these warmongers who built the weapons that ruined his life but will always be fair and smart!

With this movie, Jeunet offers us a modern version of David vs Goliath that mixes humor, intelligence, irony and, as usual from him, a subtitle sense of using the details of our everyday life. Short version: I really liked it!

Bazil surrounded by two of his new friends, “Petit-Pierre” and “La Môme Cahoutchou”

Another thing that made this film special was the environment: the GFT is an old fashioned cinema (very similar to the Utopia in Toulouse) where you can find more independent and foreign films than blockbusters.

Inside the “Cinema 2″ at the Glasgow Film Theatre

I really like the environment and especially the moment when the curtains where opened for the first time: it felt like being part of the past
Another thing that I expected was that lots of people in the theatre were French. Easy to notice before the film because of the comments and even more easy during the film since we were the firsts to laugh out loud at the jokes (Subtitles were good but it always takes a bit more time to read a joke than hear it!).
At the end of the film and with a lot of French words in my head, it was difficult to believe the Glasgow is in Scotland!

The GFT is really a good place for goods cinematographic experiences and I can only recommend it!

- Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, out in 2007;

- Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, out in 2009;

- Evangelion: 3.0 Quickening, not out yet;

- Evangelion: Final, not out yet.

After having seen Evangelion 1.0 on DVD (that was just amazing!), I started to inquire on the Internet about the second film and discovered that even if it was not available on DVD yet, the UK premiere was to come… in Glasgow at the Glasgow Film Theatre for the sixth Glasgow Film Festival on the 15th of February! Hence, last Monday was for me the occasion to renew with one of my favorite anime serie ever and see Evangelion 2.0.

Although they have the same starting point, the new film are very different from the original TV series. The first film go through the 8 first episodes of the series with a lot of small variations at the beginning to tons of new details at the end. Also the graphical design has nothing to do with the original – of course now everything is computerized which makes the animations splendid!

The second film however is radically different from the storyline you would expect if you know the series: a new character, new evas, different angels,… Although the differences are major and highlight a complete new plot, I really liked the work that has been done: this new version is simpler to understand (yes, the original Evangelion episodes could have been written by Freud) and since the story variates, it is a delight to re-discover the Evangelion world.

I have always been used to watch Evangelion alone at the TV or on the computer so for me, watching it at the cinema was really amazing! It was just fabulous to discover the new story with a few hundred people and be able to laugh at Misato’s behavior, be scared by the Angels and encourage Shinji through his journey! Add to that the good environment of the GFT and a very friendly staff and you get the perfect recipe for enjoying your film!

The only thing that I hope is that they will do the same again for Eva 3.0 and 4.0

In summary, buy the first DVD and jump on the second one as soon as it is out!