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Venice 2012 / Competition

8 articles available in total starting from 30/08/2012. Last article published on 08/09/2012.

The Winter of Our Discontent announces the end of the world in The Fifth Season

Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth have made a visually impressive film full of symbols that is vying for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival  

08/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Passion relies on McAdams-Rapace chemistry

Brian De Palma's colourful film noir entices the audience into a world of dark games and manipulation  

07/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Un giorno speciale, in between news story and disillusion

Based on the novel by the same day of actor, director and screenwriter Claudio Bigagli, Un giorno special by Francesca Comencini is the third Italian film in competition in Venice  

07/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

War and Peace in the footsteps of Raúl Ruiz

Entwined destinies in war-torn 19th century Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s historical drama unveiled in the competition in Venice  

05/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Something in the Air: Idealism as sincere sign of the times

"I live in fantasies and when reality comes knocking on my door, I don't open," says the protagonist of Something in the Air, the latest film by French writer-director Olivier Assayas  

04/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

A cinic Ciprì in a surreal Palermo

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

01/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Paradise: Faith hits harder than Paradise: Love

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  

01/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Superstar despite himself

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

30/08/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

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