All Competition articles
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Reviews‘Love’: Venice Review
Second part of a trilogy from Norway which began at Berlin with ‘Sex’ and continues at Venice
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Reviews‘Youth (Homecoming)’: Venice Review
Wang Bing’s five-year documentary project about young Chinese factory workers draws to a sombre close
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Reviews‘Stranger Eyes’: Venice Review
Singapore’s first film to compete at Venice is a closely-observed mystery about a child who has vanished
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Reviews‘Sicilian Lessons’: Venice Review
An ex-politician goes undercover in this Sicilian mob comedy which fails to hit the target
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Reviews‘April’: Venice Review
An doctor in rural Georgia risks herself to care for her female patients in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice Jury Prize-winning feature
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Reviews‘Diva Futura’: Venice Review
Rich, lengthy biopic explores the life and work of Italian pornographer Riccardo Schicchi
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Reviews‘Joker: Folie A Deux’: Venice Review
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix fail to spark in Todd Phillips’ musical sequel
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Reviews‘The Quiet Son’: Venice Review
A solid Vincent Lindon dominates this disappointingly apolitical film about a French youth enthralled by the far right
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Reviews‘Queer’: Venice Review
Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella
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Reviews‘Harvest’: Venice Review
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film is a textured adaptation of a novel set in a 17th century Scottish village
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NewsDaniel Craig, Drew Starkey prepared for ‘Queer’ sex scenes by “rolling around on the floor”
”We had months of this experimenting with each other, moving to poetry, forgetting the language of it all.”
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Reviews‘The Room Next Door’: Venice Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner is also his English-language debut starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
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Reviews‘Vermiglio’: Venice Review
Maura Delpero’s second feature is an accomplished, restrained family drama set in the Italian Alps during the Second World War
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NewsPedro Almodóvar makes passionate climate change cry in Venice: “We have to pay greater attention”
”Climate change is not something neglectable,” said the Spanish filmmaker, calling out the approach of the Spanish government.
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Reviews‘I’m Still Here’: Venice Review
Walter Salles directs Fernanda Torres in a standout performance as a real-life matriarch in military-ruled Brazil of the 1970s
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NewsBrady Corbet, director of 215-minute ‘The Brutalist’, says runtimes talk is “silly”
Corbet says the film is about character “who flees fascism only to encounter capitalism.”
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Reviews‘The Order’: Venice Review
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult go toe-to-toe in Justin Kurzel’s gritty crime drama set in 1980s Idaho
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Reviews‘Battleground’: Venice Review
Gianni Amelio explores the moral complications of conflict in this hospital-set First World War drama
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Reviews‘And Their Children After Them’: Venice Review
Small town in France, bad teenage decisions for the third feature by the Boukherma twins
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Reviews‘Three Friends’: Venice Review
Emmanuel Mouret delivers a knotty Lyon-set romantic drama starring Camille Cottin