All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 17
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Reviews‘Saint Omer’: Venice Review
Alice Diop’s fiction debut uses a real-life courtroom drama to challenge media assumptions
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Reviews‘On The Fringe’: Venice Review
Lives on the edge in this Spanish social-realist drama starring Penelope Cruz and Luis Tosar
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Reviews‘Amanda’: Venice Review
First-timer Carolina Cavalli presents a distinctive portrait of a ‘friendless weirdo’ living in Turin
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Reviews‘Love Life’: Venice Review
Family tensions are exacerbated by tragedy in Koji Fukada’s emotional melodrama
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Reviews‘Blanquita’: Venice Review
A real life Chilean child abuse case forms the basis of Fernando Guzzoni’s atmospheric thriller
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Reviews‘The Whale’: Venice Review
Brendan Fraser brings a big heart to Darren Aronofsky’s faltering adaptation of a stage play about a man eating himself to death
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Reviews‘L’Immensita’: Venice Review
Penelope Cruz is ’a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare’ in Emanuele Crialese’s beguiling drama
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Reviews‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’: Venice Review
Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family is positioned against her singular background as an artist in Laura Poitras’s absorbing documentary
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Reviews‘A Couple’: Venice Review
Frederick Wiseman’s fiction feature is a monologue taken from the diaries of Tolstoy’s wife
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Reviews‘Blue Jean’: Venice Review
Georgia Oakley’s impressive debut, set in the UK during the introduction of Section 28, features a knockout performance from Rosy McEwen
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Reviews‘Stonewalling’: Venice Review
Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka explore the limited options available to the younger generation of contemporary China
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Reviews‘A Man’: Venice Review
A grieving woman learns the truth about her late husband in Kei Ishikawa’s slow-burn drama
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Reviews‘Megalomaniac’: Fantasia Review
Karim Ouelhaj draws on the unsolved case of the Butcher Of Mons for her macabre fourth feature
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Reviews‘Hypochondriac’: Fantasia Review
Addison Heimann flirts with body horror and paranoia as he explores a man losing his mind
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Reviews‘Christina’: FIDMarseille Review
Nikola Spasic builds a compelling docu-fiction around the titular Serbian transgender sex worker
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Reviews‘Afghan Dreamers’: Galway Review
Stirring documentary about the mixed fortunes of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team
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Reviews‘Mother’: Munich Review
Testimonies of real life mothers are at the centre of Carolin Schmitz’s involving documentary-fiction hybrid
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Reviews‘No Dogs Or Italians Allowed’: Annecy Review
Alain Ughetto traces his family history in this charming, personal second feature animation
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Reviews‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’: Annecy Review
Haruki Murakami’s short stories inspire an elegantly surreal directorial debut from composer Pierre Foldes
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Reviews‘Dounia And The Princess Of Aleppo’: Annecy Review
A young girl’s journey to find a new home provides the road map for this enchanting animated story