All articles by Lee Marshall
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Reviews‘Past Future Continuous’ review: IDFA Envision winner is poignant, formally daring family portrait
Directors Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand explore the link between a US-based woman and her parents in Tehran
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Reviews‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ review: Strong Afghan migrant doc blends phone footage and animation
Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei’s IDFA competition title follows a young Afghan artist attempting to journey to Europe
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Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
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Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
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Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
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Reviews‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ review: Rich, rewarding doc follows a Paraguayan boy from adolescence to adulthood
Clarisa Navas’s fascinating feature plays IDFA following its Visions du Reel Grand Jury prize win
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Reviews‘Steal This Story, Please!’ review: Energetic doc follows dogged US journalist Amy Goodman
Feature from ’Trouble The Water’ filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin makes its international bow at IDFA
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Reviews‘Palestine 36’ review: Palestine’s Oscar entry is stirring historical drama from Annemarie Jacir
Jacir’s lavish period epic is set against the background of Palestine’s 1936 Arab Revolt against British rule
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Reviews‘Ish’ review: Black-and-white UK debut proves lyrical study of adolescent male friendship
Imran Perretta’s fresh drama plays London after winning Venice Critics Week Audience Award
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Reviews‘Gavagai’ review: Ulrich Kohler splits his satirical drama between Senegal and Berlin
The writer/director’s latest revolves around a fictional film version of Medea being made in West Africa
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Reviews‘Dog 51’ review: Cedric Jimenez’s high-octane thriller is set in a near-future Paris
Adele Exarchopoulos and Gilles Lellouche star in engaging Venice Film Festival closer
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Reviews‘Bravo Bene!’ review: Sicily’s Franco Maresco puts himself at the centre of his meta-mockumentary
Surreal Venice Competition title is a layered satire of the director’s own inability to make a film.
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Reviews‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ review: Affectionate documentary profiles the Hollywood legend and Hitchcock star
Director Alexandre O’ Philippe joins Novak for a look back at her career, and her most famous role
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Reviews‘A Loose End’ review: Daniel Hendler’s cop-on-the-run comedy is a deadpan delight
The Uruguayan director’s third film stars Sergio Prina as an Argentinian policeman forced to flee over the border
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Reviews‘Duse’ review: Italian auteur Pietro Marcello’s ambitious biopic of actress Eleonora Duse
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Noémie Merlant star in Marcello’s Venice Competition title
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Reviews‘The Stranger’ review: Francois Ozon adapts 1940s Algeria-set novella into artful character study
Black-and-white Venice Competition title is adapted from Albert Camus story and stars Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder
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Reviews‘My Tennis Maestro’ review: Pierfrancesco Favino charms as a faded Italian tennis pro
Andrea Di Stefano’s 1980s-set comedy premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ review: Jim Jarmusch and starry cast deliver tender family triptych
Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling and Vicky Krieps are among the ensemble of Jarmusch’s Venice competition title
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Reviews‘A Year Of School’ review: A Swedish girl finds her way in an Italian all-male high school
Laura Samani’s engaging comedy-drama premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Below The Clouds’ review: Evocative black-and-white study of Naples from documentarian Gianfranco Rosi
Italian filmmaker’s Venice competition title is a strikingly melancholic portrait of the southern Italian city