Edinburgh A Sense of Place Have you seen the film Sunshine on Leith ? Built around the songs of The Proclaimers, it tells the story of two former soldiers trying to get used to civilian life in Edinburgh. The plot is not much to write home about, but the movie is worth seeing just for the star of the show. The latter is not one of the cast but the city of Edinburgh itself. There are a number of films that have such a strong sense of place that the setting itself seems to become a character: Covent Garden Market in Hitchcock’s Frenzy ; Venice in Don’t Look Now ; the Australian outback in Walkabout . The list could go on and on, and would include many American films of ...