i really want to like this film for a couple of reason 1. annie griifin do a fine job with the book club and 2. it british . sadly neither reason prove strong enough for me to be able to overlook festival many flaw . i can only guess that griffin original aim be to write a movie where comedy and tragedy be so closely link that it be difficult to see where one end and the other begin and what good backdrop that the edinburgh festival which every year attract act from all four corner of the world and who come to entertain and supposedly change their life . definitely a strong starting point for a funny and touching and think provoke movie and unfortunately this ain not it . for one thing we be ask to focus on far too many character and assorted comic and bizarre actor and various hanger on who each have a story to tell but no time in which to tell it . a a result they never become anything other than one dimensional character and unpleasant one at that . who be faith and the actress behind the one woman show about dorothy wordsworth . why have she choose to do this . why have she bring it to edinburgh and what be she hop to achieve . we never find out . be brother mark a real priest . why do petra put up with sean . be she in love with his or just too apathetic to do anything else with her life . what with the canadian trio whose show touch the audience but who be present to u a buffoon . and what about the depressed mother who abandon her child in what be present to u a some sort of happy and romantic love story . ditto the perrier award which seem to be tack on a an afterthought or just an excuse to introduce a bunch of stereotypical arty journalist spew line upon line of bitchy clichés . lot of question but no answer and a a result the film add up to little more than an unholy mess . and then the sex scene . one commentator actually applaud these graphic and let be honest gratuitous scene decalring them to be real well maybe he have be fisted many time on the floor of a puppet shop by a bald punk and i would hazard a guess and say that many of u have not . guess that mean movie like deepthroat should be regard a social documentary rather than porno junk . i could go on to talk about the nonsensical punch up at the end but what would be the point . suffice it to say that if this be the way that the uk film council be spend it money then it no wonder british film industry be in such dire strait .