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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 26/06/2025.

Feelings and bodies laid bare in Happy Few

Sex as a foursome in flour, partner swapping, lesbian love. A scandalous film on the Lido? Not really. Antony Cordier’s second feature Happy Few is a romantic drama which (literally) lays bodies...  

03/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

Miral, an ode to tolerance

If there is something enviable about the North Americans it is their courage to throw themselves into adventures without asking too many questions. For many, it is their limitation. New York-born...  

02/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France-Israel-Italy-India

Celestini’s “black sheep” in a world of mad people

The film that made only Pupi Avati cry: beyond the irony (the Bologna-born director reproached the Mostra selectors for having chosen it instead of his Una Sconfinata Giovinezza), La Pecora Nera...  

02/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Sagat: From hard porn to gay zombie

Two films in Competition, but no Best Actor Leopard. Not that anyone was counting on it (least of all himself), but the fact remains that the true star here at the Locarno International Film...  

13/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Germany

Outbound: Matilda’s 24 hours of freedom

Matilda – played by Ana Ularu, a nervy beauty who starred in The Paper Will Be Blue and a serious contender for the Best Actress Leopard – is rewarded for good behaviour with a day’s release from...  

11/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Romania

Fliegauf and cloned love

On a windswept beach with crashing waves, Rebecca and Tommy met as children. He lives this landscape on a metaphysical journey so savage that it seems unnatural, while she – staying at her...  

11/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Germany-Hungary-France

Honoré’s erotic bodies reach beyond cliché

According to director Christophe Honoré, today as in the past, French cinema lacks films and actors that explore virility in all its facets. “Actors’ bodies,” he says,” are often covered,...  

09/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/France

Pietro, the story of an outcast

After screening his nearly four-hour documentary Rata Nece Biti, on the aftermath of the war in the former Yugoslavia, at Locarno (then going on to win the Turin Film Festival and a David di...  

09/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Italy

Varied line-up and “virtual market” for 67th Mostra

With a slightly reduced budget (€12m, of which €7.7m are state funds) and some necessary cost-cutting, given the times – "We’re adopting a sober approach”, says Biennale president Paolo Baratta,...  

29/07/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition

Ozon, Cordier and probably Kechiche to vie for Golden Lion

In Paris, the veil has been partially lifted on the trio of French films that will screen in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival (September 1-11). Set to vie for honours are François...  

05/07/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition

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