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Venice 2008 / France

13 articles available in total starting from 04/07/2008. Last article published on 05/09/2008.

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A painterly exploration of desire and jealousy

The last film to be presented in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival this year is Un lac (“A Lake”), a French production from director Phillipe Grandieux. In the rugged landscape of...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/France

Duret and Santana explore Brazil’s deprived areas

Is it possible to make a documentary about deprived Northeast Brazil, taking inspiration from spaghetti-westerns? France’s Jean-Pierre Duret and Brazil’s Andrea Santana have done just that: their...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/France

The calvary of modern living

French director Arnaud des Pallières looks at life in a contemporary gated community on the Côte d’Azur in his third feature Le Parc. The two-hander, adapted from a ‘60s novel by US writer John...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/France

Long live Varda

“A little old woman – a wanderer and a chatterbox – who talks about her life”. This is how Agnès Varda introduces herself in the first scene of her documentary The Beaches of Agnès, which offers...  

03/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Out of competition/France

Collardey explores rural world in L’apprenti

Samuel Collardey’s L’apprenti (“The Apprentice”) combines documentary and fiction to tell the story of 15-year-old protagonist Mathieu. The latter is a student in an agricultural institute and is...  

03/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week/France

Verheyde’s autobiographical Stella shines bright

Yet another standing ovation from Venice Days audiences, this time for Sylvie Verheyde’s third feature film, Stella. The actress-screenwriter-director turned to her childhood for inspiration, to...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Venice Days/France

Kabuli Kid’s neorealist taxi

In present-day Kabul, a woman abandons her newborn baby on the back seat of Khaled’s taxi. This is the opening scene of Barmak Akram’s Kabuli Kid, a journey across the Afghan capital in search of...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week | France

Claire Denis’ special affect

Claire Denis – a regular at the Venice Film Festival since Good Work and Friday Night – returns to the Lido. “My association with Venice has been very fortunate”, explained the French director,...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Out of competition/France

The Other One: The magical number two

After Barbet Schroeder’s Inju, the second French film in competition at the Venice Film Festival is appropriately titled The Other One. The film is also the second feature for the cinema by...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Schroeder’s untamed Beast

The line between fiction and reality is not so much blurred as it is erased in Barbet Schroeder’s Venice Competition title Inju – The Beast in the Shadow. The SBS and La fabrique de films...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

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