The first Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award was given out over the closing weekend of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, with the honours going to Swedish horror movie Let the Right One In. David Edwards, the film critic for the Daily Mirror, was on the panel and commented “The movie was so original. It started out as one thing and then surprised you by doing an about turn and becoming something else. It’s a great film, and the less you know about it before you go in to see it, the more you’ll enjoy it. As a film critic I can say it’s certainly among the top 10 movies I’ve seen all year.”
Now I am darned annoyed I missed it, but it conflicted with another screening (always a problem at the Film Fest), so I’ll just have to wait until it gets a more general release, which hopefully this win at a high-profile festival will give it a better chance of distribution (and indeed it previously won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the TriBeCa festival). The film is an adaptation of the Swedish novel Låt den rätte komma by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which features a 12 year old boy and his friendship with a 200 year old vampire child.
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