Festival reviews – Page 154
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‘Waiting For The Barbarians’: Venice Review
Mark Rylance shines in this otherwise bloated adaptation of J.M.Coetzee’s novel
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‘Radioactive’: Toronto Review
Rosamund Pike plays Marie Curie in Marjane Satrapi’s thoughtful biopic of the ground-breaking scientist
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‘True History Of The Kelly Gang’: Toronto Review
Justin Kurzel returns to form with this gritty Australian gothic
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‘Lingua Franca’: Venice Review
A transgender Filipina woman cares for a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brooklyn
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‘Madre’: Venice Review
Another intriguing - and satisfying - drama from Spain’s Rodrigo Sorogoyen
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‘Hava, Maryam, Aleysha’: Venice Review
With her debut feature, Sahraa Karimi explores the lives of three Afghan women
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‘State Funeral’: Venice Review
Sergei Loznitsa explores the national impact of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953
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‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’: Toronto Review
Dev Patel gives a career best performance as the titular character of Armando Iannucci’s freewheeling Dickens adaptation
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‘Lina From Lima’: Toronto Review
A Peruvian domestic worker in Chile takes the opportunity to reinvent herself
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‘Sea Fever’: Toronto Review
An Irish fishing trawler encounters a bizarre creature in forbidden waters
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‘While At War’: Toronto Review
Alejandro Amenabar takes a look at Franco’s Spain through the experiences of celebrated writer Miguel de Unamuno
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‘Gloria Mundi’: Venice Review
An ex-convict travels to meet his newborn granddaughter and reconnect with his estranged family
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‘The Barefoot Emperor’: Review
An king is poised to rule over a newly nationalist Europe after the collapse of the EU
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‘The Domain’: Venice Review
The chronicle of a Portuguese land-owning family as their fortunes change across 45 years
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‘Mosul’: Venice Review
The true story of an Iraqi SWAT team waging war against ISIS in Mosul
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‘Saturday Fiction’: Venice Review
A Chinese actress returns to 1940s Shanghai to star in a play by her former lover
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‘Arab Blues’: Venice Review
After living in Paris since childhood, a Tunis-born psychoanalyst returns to her homeland