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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Review: Love

Review: Love

VENICE 2024: In the new part of his “Sex Dreams Love” trilogy, Norwegian helmer Dag Johan Haugerud’s idea of love strives to be bold but instead feels rather lacklustre  

06/09/2024 | 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

Athina Rachel Tsangari  • Director of Harvest

Interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari • Director of Harvest

“Every part of the process was informing the script, as a way to slowly keep ploughing this ground”

VENICE 2024: The Greek director unpicks her long-awaited new feature, a period film that is deeply grounded in the present  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Stranger Eyes

Review: Stranger Eyes

VENICE 2024: Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua’s thriller finds a couple grieving after their daughter goes missing, with the country’s culture of mass surveillance holding the answer to the mystery  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Sicilian Letters

Review: Sicilian Letters

VENICE 2024: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza continue their reflection on the Mafia culture in Sicily, with Elio Germano in the shoes of a boss in hiding and Toni Servillo as a corrupt politician  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: April

Review: April

VENICE 2024: Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s long-awaited sophomore feature is a mesmerising Golden Lion contender, thanks to its assured vision, singularity and depth  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Delphine and Muriel Coulin • Directors of The Quiet Son

Interview: Delphine and Muriel Coulin • Directors of The Quiet Son

"The film is a game of three-cushioned billiards between love and hate"

VENICE 2024: The French filmmakers explain their new film, a family- and politics-focused drama about paternal and fraternal love, betrayal, and the question of forgiveness  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: Diva Futura

Review: Diva Futura

VENICE 2024: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s second film, dedicated to Riccardo Schicchi, who in the 1980s and 1990s launched several pornstars, features too many details and flashbacks  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

Interview: Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

“My protagonist becomes a free woman out of necessity”

VENICE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about motherhood, documentaries, fiction and the female outlook, and about Ermanno Olmi  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Review: The Quiet Son

Review: The Quiet Son

VENICE 2024: Delphine and Muriel Coulin craft a remarkable film about the upheaval caused to a family of three when one of them drifts far-right  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

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