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Competition / France


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

Review: Holly

Review: Holly

VENICE 2023: Belgian director Fien Troch offers a fantastic escape in all meanings of the word in the mysterious lands of faith and peer pressure  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Green Border

Review: Green Border

VENICE 2023: Polish leading light Agnieszka Holland returns with an adroit look at Belarus’s disruption of her country’s and the EU’s immigration policies  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Io Capitano

Review: Io Capitano

VENICE 2023: Focusing on two African teenagers’ voyage to Europe, Matteo Garrone maintains his usual formal rigour but does not give the viewer a true impression of the horrors of migration  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Bertrand Bonello  • Director of The Beast

Interview: Bertrand Bonello • Director of The Beast

“Cinema and hypnosis go well together”

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker gives us a few clues to decipher his subjugating film of a very broad ambition  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: The Beast

Review: The Beast

VENICE 2023: Bertrand Bonello delivers an extraordinary film, at once powerful, subjugating and cryptic, which navigates the corridors of time following the very charismatic Léa Seydoux  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Dogman

Review: Dogman

VENICE 2023: Luc Besson shows you can teach an old dog new tricks with his twisted, fun, crazy film – and he might even bring you some flour  

01/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: Rossosperanza

Review: Rossosperanza

The latest powerful film from Annarita Zambrano is a cruel and violent satire of respectability in a society kept captive by its small and petty privileges  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Laura Ferrés  • Director of The Permanent Picture

Interview: Laura Ferrés • Director of The Permanent Picture

“I am not interested in making autobiographical films; I already spend enough time with myself”

The Catalonian director has crafted an experimental and genre-blending portrait of women from different generations  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Sylvain George  • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Interview: Sylvain George • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

“At night, the rules don’t apply”

The French director dives into darkness in his film about a group of kids from Morocco, dreaming of escaping to Europe yet still stuck in Melilla  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Review: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Radu Jude’s eighth fiction feature seems to imply that the apocalypse might not arrive as a spectacular big bang, but rather as a flood of stupidity – and it’s actually already here  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

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