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2303 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Review: An Officer and a Spy

Review: An Officer and a Spy

VENICE 2019: Roman Polanski has made a handsome film about the Dreyfus affair, containing another superb performance from Jean Dujardin as a man determined that the truth will out  

02/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Mario Martone  • Director of The Mayor of Rione Sanità

Interview: Mario Martone • Director of The Mayor of Rione Sanità

"I transposed De Filippo’s play to today, without rhetorical artifice"

VENICE 2019: Competing for the Golden Lion in Venice, The Mayor of Rione Sanità is a rereading of a great classic from Eduardo De Filippo. We met with its director, Mario Martone  

31/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Review: The Mayor of Rione Sanità

Review: The Mayor of Rione Sanità

VENICE 2019: A surprising performance from Francesco Di Leva as a charismatic boss of the Camorra shines in Mario Martone’s adaptation of the eponymous play by Eduardo De Filippo  

31/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Hirokazu Kore-eda  • Director of The Truth

Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda • Director of The Truth

“There is always some loneliness that comes with success”

VENICE 2019: Cineuropa met up with acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who left his home country for musings on family and fame in The Truth  

30/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Review: The Truth

Review: The Truth

VENICE 2019: With this year’s opening film, Hirokazu Kore-eda proves he is good enough to survive a shoot in another language, but not good enough to avoid every piece of clunky dialogue  

29/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Henner Winckler  • Director of A Voluntary Year

Interview: Henner Winckler • Director of A Voluntary Year

A Voluntary Year is more about our fears of how things could be than how they really are”

We sat down with German director Henner Winckler to pick apart A Voluntary Year, which he co-directed with Ulrich Köhler and which screened at Locarno  

23/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Three European female directors added to San Sebastián’s Official Section

Three European female directors added to San Sebastián’s Official Section

The latest offerings from Sarah Gavron, Malgorzata Szumowska and Alice Winocour round off the main strand of the Basque gathering, together with a further three titles announced earlier today  

22/08/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Cătălin Mitulescu  • Director of Heidi

Interview: Cătălin Mitulescu • Director of Heidi

“In any story, age has a weight”

We chatted about love as a tango and unbalanced relationships with Romanian director Cătălin Mitulescu, whose newest feature, Heidi, is now competing at Sarajevo  

22/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Review: Rounds

Review: Rounds

In his new film, Stephan Komandarev explores the challenges in Bulgarian society 30 years after the fall of communism  

22/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

Radu Dragomir  • Director of Mo

Interview: Radu Dragomir • Director of Mo

“All I wanted was to tell a credible story”

Romanian director Radu Dragomir invites us behind the closed doors of Mo, his first feature currently screening in competition at Sarajevo  

21/08/2019 | Sarajevo 2019 | Competition

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