16/04/2013 - Fleischer joins Grémillon in retrospectives strand

The 67^th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will close on June 30 with the premiere of Not Another Happy Ending, directed by John McKay (Piccadilly Jim). The film features Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber alongside Amy Manson, Iain de Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis and Henry Ian Cusick.

Chris Fujiwara, EIFF Artistic Director, said, “Speaking as somebody who, before coming to Scotland, knew Scotland partly through its portrayal in films, I'm really excited to find in Not Another Happy Ending a fresh, interesting, and almost idyllic take on the cultural vibrancy of Scottish city life. The film also shows how well the time-honoured genre of romantic comedy can work in the contemporary Scottish context. The film will add just the right note of celebration with which to close our festival this year.”

The film follows struggling, maverick publisher Tomas Duval who discovers his only successful author Jane Lockhart is blocked. He knows he has to unblock her or he’s finished. Not Another Happy Ending is presented by British Film Company and Creative Scotland in association with BBC Scotland and is a Synchronicity Films Production. Additional funders include Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Glasgow Film Office and Southwest Scotland Screen. LevelK is handling international sales.

Following the announcement of its partnership with the BFI to celebrate the films of French director Jean Grémillon, the EIFF has also announced a retrospective of Hollywood director Richard Fleischer in partnership with the Filmhouse.