Festival reviews – Page 42
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Reviews‘North Star’: Toronto Review
Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut, starring Scarlett Johansson, draws heavily on her own life
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Reviews‘We Grown Now’: Toronto Review
Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project is the setting for this early 1990s coming of age drama
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Reviews‘Memory’: Venice Review
Michel Franco tackles multiple harrowing issues in this New York-set drama starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard
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Reviews‘Unicorns’: Toronto Review
Sally El Hosaini’s follow-up to ‘The Swimmers’ is set in the world of ‘gaysian’ drag queen cabaret.
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Reviews'Out Of Season': Venice Review
Stéphane Brizé changes register for this romance starring Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher
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Reviews‘Gonzo Girl’: Toronto Review
Willem Dafoe and Camila Morrone star in Patrica Arquette’s directorial debut, loosely based on Hunter S. Thompson
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Reviews‘Woman Of…’: Venice Review
A trans-woman’s entire life comes under the lens in Malgorzata Szumowska abd Michał Englert’s tough Polish drama.
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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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Reviews‘The Royal Hotel’: Toronto Review
Kitty Green delivers a further devastating drama on toxic masculinity, working again with ’The Assistant’s’ Julia Garner
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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