Festival reviews – Page 17
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Reviews‘The Boy And The Heron’: Toronto Review
TIFF opener is Hayao Miyazaki’s long awaited return to film-making
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Reviews‘Copa 71’: Toronto Review
Topical documentary examines the systemic sexism surrounding the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico
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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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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‘The Human Surge 3’: Toronto Review
Eduardo Williams experimental hybrid looks at the lives of possibly connected young people in Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Peru
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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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Reviews‘For Night Will Come’: Venice Review
A teenage vampire searches for acceptance in this low-key French debut
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Reviews‘Housekeeping For Beginners’: Venice Review
Goran Stolevski delivers another triumph in this domestic story of marginalised people
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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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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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Reviews‘Enea’: Venice Review
A young man struggles in Rome’s upper classes in Pietro Castellitto’s Competition entry
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Reviews‘Green Border’: Venice Review
Agnieszka Holland paints a damning portrait of the European refugee crisis in this Venice Competition entry
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Reviews‘Sky Peals’: Venice Review
Moin Hussain’s intriguing arthouse tale of alienation in modern Britain plays out in Critics Week