Festival reviews – Page 44
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Reviews‘The Beast’: Venice Review
Betrand Bonello’s adaptation of the Henry James novella is a retro/futurist drama starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay
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Reviews‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros’: Venice Review
Frederick Wiseman takes time to savour his subject in this absorbing four-hour documentary about a French restaurant
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Reviews‘The Vourdalak’: Venice Review
Tolstoy’s blood-sucking novella gets an imaginative reworking by French stylist Adrien Beau
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Reviews‘The Featherweight’: Venice Review
Faux documentary which perfectly captures the fading glory of real-life featherweight boxing champ Willie Pep
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Reviews‘The Theory Of Everything’: Venice Review
A conference about quantum physics in 1960s Switzerland plays host to this atmospheric noir debut
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Reviews‘Aggro Dr1ft’: Venice Review
Harmony Korine aims for post-cinema in a film shot using thermal imagery and without a screenplay
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Reviews‘Explanation For Everything’: Venice Review
Hungary’s political divisions are manifested by a teenage student facing unrest both at home and school
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Reviews‘The Palace’: Venice Review
Roman Polanski’s attempted comedy set in a Swiss luxury hotel proves to be anything but five star
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Reviews‘The Rescue’: Venice Review
The kidnap of a businessman reveals the fragility of Argentina’s new-found democracy in this 1980s-set drama
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Reviews‘Maestro’: Venice Review
Director/star Bradley Cooper conducts an impressively-mounted, if uneven, portrait of composer Leonard Bernstein
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Reviews‘Foremost By Night’: Venice Review
Well-intentioned Spanish drama about the forced abduction of infants by the Franco regime plays out in Venice Days
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Reviews‘Adagio’: Venice Review
Pierfrancesco Favino and Toni Servillo play two ageing mob-men in the final part of Stefano Sollima’s Rome-set crime trilogy
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Reviews‘Hoard’: Venice Review
Debut British filmmaker Luna Carmoon draws from her own life for this unconventional mother-daughter drama
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Reviews‘High & Low: John Galliano’: Telluride Review
Kevin Macdonald paints a clear-eyed portrait of fashion’s enfant terrible John Galliano
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Reviews‘Finally Dawn’: Venice Review
Saverio Costanzo’s Cinecitta-set delight harks to the heyday of ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’ and co-stars Lily James and Willem Dafoe
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Reviews‘Baltimore’: Telluride Review
Imogen Poots is commanding as heiress-turned IRA moll Rose Dugdale in Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s measured portrait
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Reviews‘Poor Things’: Venice Review
Emma Stone is a freshly minted woman of the world in Yorgos Lanthimos’s rich slice of period futurism
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Reviews‘Frank Capra: Mr America’: Venice Review
Pacy exploration of the life and legacy of celebrated ’It’s A Wonderful Life’ filmmaker Frank Capra
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Reviews‘The Promised Land’: Venice Review
‘Invigoratingly savage Nordic western’ stars Mads Mikkelsen as a retired army captain attempting to tame Jutland in 1755
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Reviews‘The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar’: Venice Review
Wes Anderson returns to the world of Roald Dahl for this short, satisfying star-studded confection for Netflix