Latest festival reviews – Page 154
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Gloria Mundi’: Venice Review
An ex-convict travels to meet his newborn granddaughter and reconnect with his estranged family
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘The Domain’: Venice Review
The chronicle of a Portuguese land-owning family as their fortunes change across 45 years
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Reviews‘Mosul’: Venice Review
The true story of an Iraqi SWAT team waging war against ISIS in Mosul
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Reviews‘Saturday Fiction’: Venice Review
A Chinese actress returns to 1940s Shanghai to star in a play by her former lover
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Reviews‘Arab Blues’: Venice Review
After living in Paris since childhood, a Tunis-born psychoanalyst returns to her homeland
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Reviews‘Babyteeth’: Venice Review
A cancer-stricken teen strikes up a relationship with an older drug dealer
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Reviews‘Moffie’: Venice Review
A young South African man struggles to hide his homosexuality in 1980s military service
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Reviews‘Collective’: Venice Review
Accomplished documentary about the 2015 Bucharest nightclub fire and subsequent healthcare scandal
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Reviews‘Guest Of Honour’: Venice Review
A man and his adult daughter attempt to unravel their knotty relationship in Atom Egoyan’s measured drama
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Reviews‘About Endlessness’: Venice Review
Swedish maestro Roy Andersson’s unique blend of pared-down mournful comedy continues with this series of 35-odd cinematic fragments
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Reviews‘Joker’: Venice Review
Super-villain origins story starring Joaquin Phoenix is a very dark gag indeed
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Reviews‘Beware Of Children’: Venice Review
The death of a child on the playing field is the starting point for this probing drama from Norway
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Reviews‘The Painted Bird’: Venice Review
An abandoned boy witness atrocities throughout Europe at the close of World War II
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Reviews‘45 Seconds Of Laughter’: Venice Review
Inside the Californian penal system with Tim Robbins’ The Actors Group
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Reviews‘The King’: Venice Review
Timothée Chalamet stars as King Henry V in David Michôd’s revisionist historical epic
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Reviews‘Martin Eden’: Venice Review
Jack London’s seminal novel is transferred to mid-century Naples by the director Pietro Marcello
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Reviews'Marriage Story': Venice Review
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson play a couple whose relationship is on the rocks in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix drama