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623 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/11/2025.

Review: The Wailing

Review: The Wailing

Pedro Martín-Calero and Isabel Peña present a powerful and disturbing film that talks about the effects of violence against women via a contemporary feminist horror story  

26/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Serpent’s Path

Review: Serpent’s Path

Kiyoshi Kurosawa readapts his 1990s film Serpent’s Path, setting it in contemporary France, for an unhinged thriller that investigates the pointless obtuseness of evil  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Albert Serra  • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

Interview: Albert Serra • Director of Afternoons of Solitude

“I work with images like poets work with words”

The Catalonian filmmaker breaks down his way of understanding cinema and the creative process underpinning his new film, a bullfighting documentary portraying a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Review: Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra presents a daring and truly extraordinary film about the world of bullfighting, painting the portrait of a matador and his entourage  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: When Fall Is Coming

Review: When Fall Is Coming

In François Ozon’s newest film, discontent brews in a cosy autumnal Burgundy village laden with intergenerational guilt, resentment and no way out but onwards  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Audrey Diwan • Director of Emmanuelle

Interview: Audrey Diwan • Director of Emmanuelle

“I wanted a story that slowly breaks the codes of this stifling world”

The French filmmaker reflects on the research and creative process behind her new film, inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan's novel of the same name  

20/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Review: Emmanuelle

Review: Emmanuelle

Audrey Diwan directs an impressive feminist version of Emmanuelle starring a dazzling Noémie Merlant  

20/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza • Directors of Sicilian Letters

Interview: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza • Directors of Sicilian Letters

“This is a dark comedy about the narcissism and the vanity of a real fugitive boss”

VENICE 2024: We talked with the duo of Italian directors about the creation of their singular grotesque comedy  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Youth (Homecoming)

Review: Youth (Homecoming)

VENICE 2024: Wang Bing completes his trilogy on young Chinese garment workers with possibly the most emotionally captivating of the three films  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Dea Kulumbegashvili • Director of April

Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili • Director of April

“Suffering is living”

VENICE 2024: After a long winter, spring always comes in the end, but in the Georgian director’s film, this particular April is cold and dark  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

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