TY - JOUR T1 - Cannes Castoffs? The 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 588 LP - 589 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X319855 VL - 58 IS - 553 AU - David Watson Y1 - 2008/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/553/588.abstract N2 - ‘Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, right?’‘Wrong.’‘He or she is entitled to their informed opinion.’Five minutes into Dreams With Sharp Teeth, Erik Nelson's documentary profile of author, screenwriter, and critic Harlan Ellison, my black little heart swelled as America's most curmudgeonly man of letters articulated just why I do what I do.You see, like most critics, I'm a bit of a git; a smug know-it-all. I'm always right. And everyone who doesn't agree with me is wrong. Always.If you don't believe me, watch this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival's opening night film, John Maybury's The Edge Of Love, then try and tell me that Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller are actresses and not Thunderbird puppets. Go on, try. They may be exquisitely sculpted, but be honest; Gerry Anderson has more to do with their acting technique than Stanislavski or Strasberg. And the only thing worse than Keira's singing as Vera, '40s nightclub chanteuse and childhood sweetheart of Dylan Thomas, is Miller's horrendous Oirish accent as Dylan's wife Caitlin; more Bengal than Ballymeena. Had it been made in the '70s by Ken Russell, Maybury's po-faced account of the tangled love life of the Welsh poet could've been a delirious camp classic in the style of Russell's other gloriously over-the-top tales of artists' lives The Music Lovers or Lisztomania. And in Russell's hands the scene where Miller and Knightley share a bath would have been worth the price of admission alone. Unfortunately it's not the '70s and that's 104 minutes of my life that John Maybury has stolen from me.While The Edge Of Love may have been thinner and less tasty than Keira and Sienna's bathwater, at least it kicked off the 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival, its 1st in its new June … ER -