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65 articles available in total starting from 30/06/2008. Last article published on 08/09/2008.

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France’s L'Apprenti scoops Best Film

The 23. International Critics’ Week jury – composed of international critics Bruno Fornara, Deborah Young and Elisabeth Lequeret – have awarded Best Film to Samuel Collardey’s L'apprenti (“The...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Awards/Critics’ Week

The ThyssenKrupp aftermath times two

In December 2007, an accident at the ThyssenKrupp industrial plant in Turin left seven men dead and an entire nation in a state of shock. Because the factory would soon close for good, safety...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/Italy

A painterly exploration of desire and jealousy

The last film to be presented in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival this year is Un lac (“A Lake”), a French production from director Phillipe Grandieux. In the rugged landscape of...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/France

Duret and Santana explore Brazil’s deprived areas

Is it possible to make a documentary about deprived Northeast Brazil, taking inspiration from spaghetti-westerns? France’s Jean-Pierre Duret and Brazil’s Andrea Santana have done just that: their...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/France

Bullying and homophobia in Locatelli’s feature debut

Milanese director Mirko Locatelli – who attracted attention with several medium-length films (in particular the documentary Crisalidi) – makes his feature debut with Il primo giorno d’inverno...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/Italy

Rosa “scratches” beneath the surface of marital bliss

Polish director Michał Rosa’s sixth feature film, Scratch, is a raw and intimate look at the ramifications of suspicion on a close couple after decades of marriage. The film’s official screening...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Venice Days/Poland

Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland

Malek is a surveyor; he measures places and borders, calculates distances and symbolically marks out the geopolitical lines of territories. In Inland – whose original title, Gabbla, means...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Algeria-France

One Day in a Life took ten years to hit screens

Ten years in the making, screenwriter-critic-filmmaker Stefano Tummolini’s independent feature debut One Day in a Life, the only Italian feature in Venice Days this year, screened to enthusiastic...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Venice Days/Italy

The calvary of modern living

French director Arnaud des Pallières looks at life in a contemporary gated community on the Côte d’Azur in his third feature Le Parc. The two-hander, adapted from a ‘60s novel by US writer John...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons/France

Long live Varda

“A little old woman – a wanderer and a chatterbox – who talks about her life”. This is how Agnès Varda introduces herself in the first scene of her documentary The Beaches of Agnès, which offers...  

03/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Out of competition/France

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