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2281 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

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

Cosmopolis: capitalism’s apocalypse

David Cronenberg delivers an obscure, hypnotic tale about the financial crisis and the end of a world in chaos.  

25/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

A Way of the Cross In the Fog

Sergei Loznitsa has made a tragic masterly work about a moral dilemma in the middle of Nazi-occupied Belorussia.  

25/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Double images and earthly infestation in Post Tenebras Lux

A poisonous dive into an almighty natural environment where human beings are powerless in the grip of evil. A chaotic work by Carlos Reygadas.  

24/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

On the Road: somewhere between euphoria and mirage

Brazilian director Walter Salles has adapted no less than a landmark in counterculture literature for his latest road movie, in the vein of his previous film Motorcycle Diaries 

23/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Holy Motors: to live and relive according to Leos Carax

French cinema’s enfant terrible is back with a visually exceptional, metaphorical film of dizzying heights and delirious depths.  

23/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

The Angels' Share : an opportunity called whisky

Ken Loach dives into the fountain of youth with a social comedy which is often very funny and less innocent than it seems.  

22/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet : a strange rendez-vous

A brilliant stylistic exercise for the very inventive maestro Alain Resnais in the form of a tribute in mirrors to creation and actors.  

21/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

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