Film Reviews

7941 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 13/08/2025. 759 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Queen of Montreuil by Sólveig Anspach

01/09/2012

Tears and laughter take turns in this new film by the Icelandic director, a delicate and surreal story on the process of mourning and the potential for rebirth with the help of others  

Queen of Montreuil

Queen of Montreuil

The Ideal City by Luigi Lo Cascio

01/09/2012

A directing debut for an actor loved by Italian audiences, who puts his name to a moral thriller called La città ideale  

It Was the Son by Daniele Ciprì

01/09/2012

The Italian film in competition, È stato il figlio moves freely from grotesque to tragic with a tragicomic Toni Servillo in the main role  

Paradise: Faith by Ulrich Seidl

31/08/2012

The second instalment in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's trilogy has shaken Venice, with all the art of provocation that he has cultivated over the years  

Paradies: Glaube

Paradies: Glaube

Superstar by Xavier Giannoli

31/08/2012

Xavier Giannoli’s film about fame raises more questions than it provides answers. Screened in the competition at the Venice Film Festival.  

Superstar

Superstar

Enzo Avitabile Music Life by Jonathan Demme

29/08/2012

With Enzo Avitabile Music Life, America’s great director meets the talented Neapolitan multi-instrumentalist and composer on the universal territory of world music  

Tango Libre by Frédéric Fonteyne

29/08/2012

Frédéric Fonteyne is back in Venice with Tango Libre, a variation on a love square in which he works again with Sergi López and Jan Hamenecker, and for the first time with François Damiens.  

Tango Libre

Tango Libre

Vegetarian Cannibal by Branko Schmidt

24/08/2012

Branko Schmidt's Vegetarian Cannibal explores the dark underbelly of Croatian society  

Shun Li and the Poet by Andrea Segre

24/08/2012

Two strangers in a strange land, an impossible friendship and the distructive power of prejudice. A first fiction film presented at the Venice Film Festival 2011. Winner of the LUX Prize 2012.  

Io sono Li

Io sono Li

Bad Seeds by Safy Nebbou

14/08/2012

In Safy Nebbou’s latest film, a kidnapping goes wrong leaving a teenager, a tormented Emile Berling, with a dark secret  

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