All Reviews articles – Page 19
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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
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‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Neo Sora’s fiction debut follows a group of students in near-future Japan as they attempt to disrupt surveillance society
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‘Maldoror’: Venice Review
Anthony Bajon is a police officer determined to crack a Belgian paedophile ring in Fabrice du Welz’s tense police procedural
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‘Queer’: Venice Review
Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella
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‘Harvest’: Venice Review
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film is a textured adaptation of a novel set in a 17th century Scottish village
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‘Familiar Touch’: Venice Review
Sensitive drama follows an American woman struggles to keep hold of herself in the face of dementia
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‘2073’: Venice Review
Asif Kapadia blends documentary and fiction to present a damning hypothesis of Earth’s dystopian future
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‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu
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‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
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‘Finally’: Venice Review
The 51st feature from French maestro Claude Lelouch is a playful ‘greatest hits’ musical fable
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‘King Ivory’: Venice Review
James Badge Dale and Ben Foster take opposite sides of America’s War on Drugs in John Swab’s lacklustre thriller
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‘The Room Next Door’: Venice Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner is also his English-language debut starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
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‘The Mohican’: Venice Review
An unassuming Corsican goatherd becomes the figurehead of a resistance movement in this assured thriller
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‘The New Year That Never Came’: Venice Review
The fall of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu is explored in this 1989-set debut which won the top Horizons prize at Venice
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‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review
The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road
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‘Vermiglio’: Venice Review
Maura Delpero’s second feature is an accomplished, restrained family drama set in the Italian Alps during the Second World War
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‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
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‘No Sleep Till’: Venice Review
Time stops for the few remaining residents of a Florida coastal town before the hurricane hits in this contemplative US debut
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‘Wolfs’: Venice Review
George Clooney and Brad Pitt hit the comedy bullseye as two solitary fixers forced to work together