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‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
The actor plays a fictional Italian president facing the end of his tenure in Sorrentino’s serious-minded follow-up to ‘Parthenope’
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‘Memory’ review: Ukrainian filmmaker Vladlena Sandu explores her troubled past in lyrical docudrama
Sandu’s exploration of a childhood spent in Crimea and Chechnya opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori
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‘Mother’ review: Noomi Rapace stars as Mother Teresa in one-dimensional biopic
Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska’s punk rock take on the religious figure opens Venice Horizons
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‘Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2’: Venice Review
The wagons just keep rolling in the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s mythical Western epic
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‘The Time It Takes’: Venice Review
Francesca Comencini’s autobiographical drama explores her relationship with her filmmaker father Luigi
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‘Love’: Venice Review
Second part of a trilogy from Norway which began at Berlin with ‘Sex’ and continues at Venice
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‘Youth (Homecoming)’: Venice Review
Wang Bing’s five-year documentary project about young Chinese factory workers draws to a sombre close
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‘Stranger Eyes’: Venice Review
Singapore’s first film to compete at Venice is a closely-observed mystery about a child who has vanished
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‘Sicilian Lessons’: Venice Review
An ex-politician goes undercover in this Sicilian mob comedy which fails to hit the target
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‘Aicha’: Venice Review
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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‘April’: Venice Review
An doctor in rural Georgia risks herself to care for her female patients in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice Jury Prize-winning feature
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‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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‘Diva Futura’: Venice Review
Rich, lengthy biopic explores the life and work of Italian pornographer Riccardo Schicchi
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‘Joker: Folie A Deux’: Venice Review
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix fail to spark in Todd Phillips’ musical sequel
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‘My Birthday’: Venice Review
Raw debut from Italy from Biennale College follows a young man trying to find his estranged mother on the eve of his 18th birthday
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‘The Quiet Son’: Venice Review
A solid Vincent Lindon dominates this disappointingly apolitical film about a French youth enthralled by the far right
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‘Pavements’: Venice Review
Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid documentary charts the fortunes of US indie band Pavement
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‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’: Venice Review
The dark tourism sites of Paris prove a quirky backdrop for this unconventional love story
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‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
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‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971