Festival reviews – Page 70
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Reviews‘Queens’: Venice Review
Yasmine Benkiran’s tale of two women on the run from authorities through Morocco closes Venice Critics Week
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Reviews‘Call Of God’: Venice Review
Kim Ki-Duk’s posthumous final film fails to leave a lasting impression
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Reviews‘Women Talking’: Toronto Review
Sarah Polley’s focused drama poses real questions about faith and forgiveness
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Reviews‘The Swimmers’: Toronto Review
Sally El-Hosaini’s striking real-life drama opens the 47th Toronto International Film Festival
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Reviews‘Dry’: Venice Review
Paolo Virzi’s sprawling, inter-connected drama places a parched Rome in the middle of a three-year drought
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Reviews‘Blonde’: Venice Review
Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ fictional novel paints a voyeuristic portrait of Marilyn Monroe
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Reviews‘The Damned Don’t Cry’: Venice Review
A mother and son reside on the fringes of Moroccan society in Fyzal Boulifa’s impressive second feature
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Reviews‘Beyond The Wall’: Venice Review
Iranian writer-director Vahid Jalilvand delivers a howl of political fury
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Reviews‘The Matchmaker’: Venice Review
Dilligent, focused and thought-provoking portrait of notorious British jihadist Tooba Gondal
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Reviews‘Have You Seen This Woman?’: Venice Review
Ksenija Marinkovic gives a committed performance in this existential psychodrama
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Reviews‘The Son’: Venice Review
Florian Zeller follows up ‘The Son’ with another family drama, starring Hugh Jackman and Vanessa Kirby
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Reviews‘Dreamin’ Wild’: Venice Review
Bill Pohlad follows up Love & Mercy with the dramatised tale of real-life musicians Donnie and Joe Emerson
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Reviews‘Luxembourg, Luxembourg’: Venice Review
Antonio Lukich’s second feature is a boisterous, bittersweet saga about twin brothers
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Reviews‘Saint Omer’: Venice Review
Alice Diop’s fiction debut uses a real-life courtroom drama to challenge media assumptions
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Reviews‘Freedom On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom’: Venice Review
Evgeny Afineevsky assembles urgent, immediate footage from the Ukraine front
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Reviews‘World War III’: Venice Review
Mohsen Tanabandeh is extraordinary in Houman Seyedi’s darkly comic portrait of the making of a Holocaust film
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Reviews‘Anhell69’: Venice Review
Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya crafts a dark meditation on a nation, and a generation
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Reviews‘Dead For A Dollar’: Venice Review
Walter Hill returns with a revisionist Western featuring a sterling performance from Christoph Waltz
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Reviews‘Lord Of The Ants’: Venice Review
Gianna Amelio’s dramatisation of a strange 1960s Italian trial may prove somewhat lost in translation
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Reviews‘The Maiden’: Venice Review
Canadian Graham Foy’s debut is an ambitious portrait of teenage life