Latest festival reviews – Page 156
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‘Sole’: Venice Review
A Polish girl prepares to sell her unwanted baby to a childless Italian couple
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‘5 Is The Perfect Number’: Venice Review
Tony Servillo stars in this Naples-set crime drama ’drunk on pulp pleasures’
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‘The Perfect Candidate’: Venice Review
Director Haifaa Al Mansour returns to her native Saudia Arabia for this story about an aspiring female politician
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‘Verdict’: Venice Review
A Filipino domestic abuse victim find the local justice system offers little protection
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‘Only The Animals’: Venice Review
Dominik Moll opens Venice Days with an intricate, ‘Rashomon’ style potboiler set in a French farming community
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‘The Truth’: Venice Review
Japanese maestro Hirokazu Kore-Eda opens Venice 2019 with a French curio
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‘Pelican Blood’: Venice Review
Nina Hoss anchors this tense drama from Germany’s Katrin Gebbe which opens Venice’s Horizons sidebar
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‘The County’: Review
An isolated Icelandic dairy farmer takes on a corrupt cooperative which threatens her livelihood
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‘Cat In The Wall’: Sarajevo Review
Terrific comedy-drama from a Bulgarian directing duo is set on an East London council estate
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‘Open Door’: Sarajevo Review
Sisters united in a car journey across Albania in a rare feature to emerge from that country
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‘Immortal’: Sarajevo Review
Striking documentary from Estonia looks at the production line of model citizens in Russia’s Arctic Circle
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‘Fire Will Come’: Review
Oliver Laxe’s prize-winning feature continues is strikingly beautiful and meditative
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‘Adoration’: Sarajevo Review
The latest from Fabrice du Welz bleeds horror tropes into a yearning romance
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‘The Son’: Sarajevo Review
Sarajevo opens with Ines Tanović’s story of a son - and a city - in transition
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‘Zana’: Toronto Review
A Kosovar woman struggles with both her failure to conceive and her traumatic wartime past
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‘O Fim Do Mundo’: Locarno Review
Basil Da Cunha’s impressive second feature is set in the slowly gentrifying Reboleira district of Lisbon
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'Iron Fists And Kung Fu Kicks': Melbourne Review
A dynamic and informative journey through martial arts movies