Festival reviews – Page 48
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Reviews‘Hesitation Wound’: Venice Review
A lawyer’s morality is put to the test during a murder trial in this compelling Turkish drama
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Reviews‘Love Is A Gun’: Venice Review
Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi makes his directorial debut with this tale of an ex-convict desperately trying to go straight
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Reviews‘Pet Shop Days’: Venice Review
Olmo Schnabel’s New York-set debut looks to lure in hip arthouse crowds
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Reviews‘The Killer’: Venice Review
Michael Fassbender is a stone cold killer in David Fincher’s reunion with ’Se7en’ writer Andrew Kevin Walker
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Reviews‘Tatami’: Venice Review
An Iran/Israel collaboration results in a first-class bout with politics in this tense judo drama
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Reviews‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’: Venice Review
A vampire who refuses to kill makes a life-changing connection in this Quebecois debut at Venice and Tiff
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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
