Festival reviews – Page 72
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Reviews‘Nezouh’: Venice Review
Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a delicate drama about a family in war-torn Syria
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Reviews‘Margins’: Venice Review
Niccolo Falsetti’s engaging debut celebrates male friendship and Italy’s underground punk scene
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Reviews‘Argentina, 1985’: Venice Review
Ricardo Darin gives an awards-worthy performance in Santiago Mitre’s rousing real-life courtroom thriller
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Reviews‘For My Country’: Venice Review
A military hazing ritual turns deadly in Rachid Hami’s intensely personal drama
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Reviews‘Monica’: Venice Review
Trace Lysette shines in this quietly thoughtful drama about a trans woman visiting her dying mother
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Reviews‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’: Venice Review
Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family is positioned against her singular background as an artist in Laura Poitras’s absorbing documentary
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Reviews‘Casa Susanna’: Venice Review
Sebastien Lifshitz’s moving documentary pay tribute to a 1960s getaway for transgender women and cross-dressers
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Reviews‘Good Night Oppy’: Telluride Review
Ryan White explores the remarkable story of the twin Mars rovers in this gentle documentary
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Reviews‘Athena’: Venice Review
Romain Gravas presents a high-octane, bullish portrait of cultural conflict in his native France
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Reviews‘Bones And All’: Venice Review
Two teen cannibals attempt to find their way in Luca Guadagnino’s tender romantic drama
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Reviews‘La Syndicaliste’: Venice Review
Isabelle Huppert plays a real-life union leader who endured a horrifying attack
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Reviews‘Padre Pio’: Venice Review
Shia LaBeouf leads Abel Ferrara’s compelling historical drama about a canonised Franciscan Capuchin friar
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Reviews‘A Couple’: Venice Review
Frederick Wiseman’s fiction feature is a monologue taken from the diaries of Tolstoy’s wife
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Reviews‘A Compassionate Spy’: Venice Review
Steve James explores the life of American spy Ted Hall in this gentle documentary
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Reviews‘The Origin Of Evil’: Venice Review
Laure Calamy leads a powerhouse cast in Sebastien Marnier’s twisty thriller
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Reviews‘Bardo’: Venice Review
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s latest is a sprawling, indulgent and deeply personal portrait of an ageing Mexican filmmaker
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Reviews‘Blue Jean’: Venice Review
Georgia Oakley’s impressive debut, set in the UK during the introduction of Section 28, features a knockout performance from Rosy McEwen
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Reviews‘Stonewalling’: Venice Review
Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka explore the limited options available to the younger generation of contemporary China
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Reviews‘Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy’: Venice Review
The landmark 1969 Oscar-winner is celebrated in Nancy Buirski’s revealing documentary