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Festival reviews – Page 7
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Reviews‘Frankenstein’ review: Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi spark in Guillermo del Toro’s operatic adaptation
Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Charles Dance also star in del Toro’s epic take on Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel
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Reviews‘Late Fame’ review: Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe shine in pleasing New York Story
The second feature from Kent Jones bows 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
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Reviews‘Rose Of Nevada’ review: George MacKay and Callum Turner star in Mark Jenkin’s atmospheric time-travel tale
Jenkin’s follows up ‘Bait’ and ’Enys Men’ with perhaps his most accessible film to date
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Reviews‘Broken English’ review: Marianne Faithfull’s life explored in inventive documentary with starry cast
Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have assembled collaborators including Tilda Swinton and George MacKay
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Reviews’Highway 99: A Double Album’ review: Ethan Hawke pays tribute to country legend Merle Haggard
Sprawling Telluride premiere assembles a wealth of stars to perform Haggard’s songs and discuss his impact
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Reviews‘No Other Choice’ review: Park Chan-wook’s economic satire is a darkly comic treat
The director’s Venice Competition title stars Lee Byung-hun as a family man who turns to desperate measures
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Reviews‘Calle Malaga’ review: Carmen Maura stars in Maryam Touzani’s tame Tangier-set domestic drama
Moroccan filmmaker Touzani follows ‘The Blue Caftan’ with a predictable story about finding things to live for in old age
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Reviews‘After The Hunt’ review: Julia Roberts heads Luca Guadagnino’s problematic #MeToo drama
Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Michael Stuhlbarg also star in this Yale University-set Venice title
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Reviews‘Sangre Del Toro’ review: Entertaining yet lightweight celebration of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
The Mexican director of ’Frankenstein’ discusses his inspirations and ideas in Yves Montmayeur’s documentary
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Reviews‘Milk Teeth’ review: A young girl searches for her missing sister in 1980s Romania
Mihai Mincan’s beguiling sophomore feature premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘At Work’ review: A French writer joins the gig economy in Valérie Donzelli’s muted drama
Bastien Bouillon stars in the director’s first Venice competition entry
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Reviews‘Hijra’ review: Family bonds are tested when a teenage girl vanishes in accomplished Saudi drama
Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen’s story centres on a grandmother and granddaughter in search of their missing relative
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Reviews‘The Tale Of Silyan’ review: Tamara Kotevska follows ‘Honeyland’ with portrait of Macedonian farmer
Lyrical hybrid documentary charts the highs and lows of rural life in modern Macedonia
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Reviews‘Strange River’ review: A teenage boy encounters hidden desires on a trip along the Danube
Catalan director Jaume Claret Muxart’s compelling coming-of-age drama plays Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Cover-Up’ review: Laura Poitras co-directs fascinating portrait of US journalist Seymour Hersh
Poitras and Mark Obenhaus follow Hersh’s career reporting on the likes of Vietnam, Watergate and Abu Ghraib
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Reviews‘Agon’ review: Intriguing Italian debut follows three sportswomen at a fictional Olympics
Giulio Bertelli’s documentary-infused drama features real life world champion judo athlete Alice Bellandi
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Reviews‘Secret Of A Mountain Serpent’ review: Lyrical exploration of female desire set in the Himalayan foothills
Indian director Nidhi Saxena draws on folklore for her atmospheric sophomore film
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Reviews‘Jay Kelly’ review: George Clooney impresses as a jaded movie star in Noah Baumbach’s gentle drama
Adam Sandler, Laura Dern and Riley Keough also star in Baumbach’s Venice Competition title
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Reviews‘Bugonia’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are dynamite in explosive Yorgos Lanthimos thriller
The director’s Venice competition title is a gloriously gonzo, sharply satirical chamber piece