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Marta Bałaga


1100 articles available in total starting from 07/04/2017. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Review: Miss Marx

Review: Miss Marx

VENICE 2020: Susanna Nicchiarelli punks up Marx’s daughter, one fourth-wall-breaking socialist manifesto at a time  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Mandibles

Review: Mandibles

VENICE 2020: With a laugh-out-loud film that feels like a long-lost cousin of the Coen brothers’ “idiot trilogy”, Quentin Dupieux once again makes the world a much better place  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Review: Padrenostro

Review: Padrenostro

VENICE 2020: In his third film, Claudio Noce goes personal, and then gets lost  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: The Duke

Review: The Duke

VENICE 2020: Roger Michell provides a crowd-pleaser that nevertheless tries to please a bit too hard  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Daniele Luchetti • Director of The Ties

Interview: Daniele Luchetti • Director of The Ties

“If your parents are wrong, it doesn’t mean you will be right”

VENICE 2020: We talked to Daniele Luchetti, the director of this year’s opening film, The Ties, the first Italian title to kick-start Venice in 11 years  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?

Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?

VENICE 2020: There is no time to catch one’s breath in Jasmila Žbanić’s powerful film, closing in on a teacher-turned-translator for the UN in Srebrenica trying to find her way  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Daria Woszek  • Director of Marygoround

Interview: Daria Woszek • Director of Marygoround

“My heroine is a virgin and she is happy about it”

We talked to the Polish director Daria Woszek, who puts a new spin on what it means to be “touched for the very first time” on her title Marygoround  

03/09/2020 | Fantasia 2020

Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads

Interview: Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads

“We are repeatedly making the same mistakes and stepping on the same rake”

VENICE 2020: We talked to Natalya Vorozhbit, the debuting director of Bad Roads, originally presented on stage at the Royal Court Theatre in London  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: The Ties

Review: The Ties

VENICE 2020: In Daniele Luchetti’s opening film of the 77th Venice Film Festival, unhappiness is something to be shared with the whole family  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Review: Undergods

Review: Undergods

In his debut feature, Madrid-born Chino Moya turns the synth all the way up to 11  

01/09/2020 | Fantasia 2020

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