Glasgow Film Festival reviews: The Vanishing | Border | Girl | Living The Light – Robby Müller

Seeing Gerard Butler giving a good performance in a decent movie is one of the nicest surprises of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. In the Scottish-set The Vanishing (****), he stars alongside Peter Mullan and newcomer Connor Swindells as one of three lighthouse keepers presented with a moral dilemma when a body and a case of gold wash up a few weeks into a six-week shift. Inspired by the never-resolved disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, the film takes its time establishing the characters, then revels in depicting their collective unravelling as the course of action they decide to follow brings infinitely more trouble than the gold is worth.