All Festivals articles – Page 25
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Reviews‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
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Reviews‘Finally’: Venice Review
The 51st feature from French maestro Claude Lelouch is a playful ‘greatest hits’ musical fable
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Reviews‘King Ivory’: Venice Review
James Badge Dale and Ben Foster take opposite sides of America’s War on Drugs in John Swab’s lacklustre thriller
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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‘The Mohican’: Venice Review
An unassuming Corsican goatherd becomes the figurehead of a resistance movement in this assured thriller
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Reviews‘The New Year That Never Came’: Venice Review
The fall of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu is explored in this 1989-set debut which won the top Horizons prize at Venice
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Reviews‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review
The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road
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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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Reviews‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
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Reviews‘No Sleep Till’: Venice Review
Time stops for the few remaining residents of a Florida coastal town before the hurricane hits in this contemplative US debut
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Features“Measuring ovations is deeply silly”: what’s behind the rise of the ‘standing ovation’ story?
One exec said he’s seen publicists with “giant stopwatches with glowing screens” independently timing ovations at film premieres.
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NewsJohn Crowley’s ‘We Live In Time’, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, to close San Sebastian
The romantic comedy stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.
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Reviews‘Wolfs’: Venice Review
George Clooney and Brad Pitt hit the comedy bullseye as two solitary fixers forced to work together
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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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NewsGeorge Clooney says his and Brad Pitt’s ‘Wolfs’ salaries “millions and millions less than reported”
“We would’ve liked [a wider cinema release]; but we are getting a release in a few hundred theaters.”
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Reviews‘The Brutalist’: Venice Review
Brady Corbet’s meticulous Silver Lion-winning drama centres around a Hungarian architect in 1940s America
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Reviews‘Anywhere Anytime’: Venice Review
The theft of a bicycle is the catalyst for this confident, incisive drama about a Sengalese immigrant in Italy
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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