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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

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

Ena Sendijarević  • Director of Sweet Dreams

Interview: Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”

The Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film and discusses the role of the past in the present  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Review: Obscure Night - Goodbye Here, Anywhere

Sylvain George sets his gaze on a group of young migrants on the border between the African continent and Europe, shining a light on a daily existence rife with persistence, hope and painful utopias  

09/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Radu Jude  • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Interview: Radu Jude • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

“It is a very self-reflective film about what images mean and what cinema can be nowadays”

The Romanian helmer breaks down his complex new feature of two halves, which provides witty comments on the digital environment and the altered nature of cinema  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Sweet Dreams

Review: Sweet Dreams

Ena Sendijarević follows up her award-winning debut with an uncanny period tale set in the Dutch East Indies  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

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