All Venice articles – Page 11
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Reviews‘Vermin’: Venice Review
Venice Critics Week closes with this skin-crawling French horror in which a housing project is beset by killer spiders
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NewsUkraine war drama ‘Photophobia’ wins Europa Cinemas Label prize in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori
Jury says: ”As exhibitors we are convinced that this film has a wide audience waiting for it.”
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NewsFremantle execs talk film strategy and upcoming films from Paolo Sorrentino and Pablo Larrain
The company has also unveiled an Israel-based €150m fund for film and scripted TV projects.
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Reviews‘Daaaaaali!’: Venice Review
Surrealist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux captures the essence of the movement’s grandmaster in this vividly entertaining biopic
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Reviews‘Lubo’: Venice Review
Frank Rogowski stars in a meandering drama about Switzerland’s persecution of Yenish children
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Reviews‘Gasoline Rainbow’: Venice Review
The Ross brothers follow up ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ with this semi-improvised story of a teenage roadtrip from Oregon to the Pacific Ocean
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Reviews‘Holly’: Venice Review
A teenage girl pays a high price for her remarkable gifts in the atmospheric fifth feature from Belgian filmmaker Fien Troch
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Reviews‘Malqueridas’: Venice Review
Debut documentary paints a poignant picture of life in a Chilean women’s prison
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NewsEuropean, Chinese, Saudi execs talk challenges and opportunities of releasing non-English language films
Speakers at Screen round-table in Venice included Daniela Elstner, Film i Vast’s Kristina Borjeson, and Lucky Red founder Andrea Occhipinti.
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Reviews‘On The Pulse’: Venice Review
Based on the director’s own life, this gentle French drama follows a TV news camerawoman as she attempts to make her mark
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Reviews‘In The Land Of Saints And Sinners’: Venice Review
Liam Neeson’s lone-wolf assassin attempts to atone for his sins in this 1970s Irish drama
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Reviews‘Origin’: Venice Review
Ava DuVernay’s docu-drama about caste is ambitious in its scope but unwieldy in its execution
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NewsAva DuVernay: Black filmmakers are told “you cannot play international film festivals”
DuVernay has become the first African American woman to play in Competition at Venice.
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Reviews‘For Night Will Come’: Venice Review
A teenage vampire searches for acceptance in this low-key French debut
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Reviews‘Io Capitano’: Venice Review
Matteo Garrone’s Competition entry follows two Sengalese teenagers hoping to achieve their dreams in Europe
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NewsVenice’s Alberto Barbera defends selecting Roman Polanski’s ‘The Palace’, as he admits film “not completely resolved”
“There has been a lack of respect towards Polanski,” said Barbera of the overwhelmingly negative reviews of his film.
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Reviews‘Snow Leopard’: Venice Review
Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden’s final film is a study of the tension between tradition and modernity
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Reviews‘About Last Year’: Venice Review
Unusual documentary captures three cisgender friends as they find acceptance and release in Turin’s ballroom scene
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Reviews‘Day Of The Fight’: Venice Review
Michael Pitt plays a middleweight boxer in the debut feature by his ’Boardwalk Empire’ co-star Jack Huston
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NewsFilmmakers defend Agnieszka Holland after migration drama ‘Green Border’ draws criticism from Polish official
Film had its world premiere in competition at Venice this week.