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67 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 13/09/2010.

Nicolau’s philosophizing pirates

The ambitions, merits and limits of Portuguese director João Nicolau can be summed up by the words with which the director accompanies his debut feature, The Sword and the Rose: not just a simple...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Horizons/Portugal

Stokman shows a different Naples in Scena del Crimine

Walter Stokman set out to make a film about a Neapolitan forensics expert when he first got the idea for the documentary Venice Days title Scena del Crimine (“Scene of the Crime”). Once he got to...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Netherlands

27 Times Cinema: discussions are online

The daily discussions which are taking place at the Venice Days headquarters as part of the initiative 27 Times Cinema (see news and blog) are online at Cineuropa’s channel on YouTube. Click on...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days

Costanzo’s horror film of feelings

Oops, wrong theatre. This must be a retrospective of the 1970s films of thriller master Dario Argento. No, this really is it, Saverio Costanzo’s highly-anticipated The Solitude of Prime Numbers,...  

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

First-time directors offer impressive slices of life in Peace on Earth

Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini have made an impressive feature debut with their ensemble story Peace on Earth, all the more impressive for the fact that it was made for under €100,000....  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Italy

Svankmajer’s psychoanalytic comedy Surviving Life

Jan Svankmajer is one of the greatest animated film directors in the world, a master in the art of stop motion. The Prague-born filmmaker, who presented his extraordinarily surrealistic creation...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Out of Competition | Czech Republic-Slovakia

Into Paradiso offers another vision of Naples

Paola Randi’s desire to make Into Paradiso arose from the power of an image. The director realised she had found the immigration-themed comedy she was looking for when she saw some street kids...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Controcampo Italiano

Opposites attract in Angèle and Tony

Angèle (Clotilde Hesme) is foul-mouthed, bold to the point of insolence and aware of her own aggressive beauty, describing herself as a weapon of seduction! Recently released from prison after a...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Critics’ Week/France

Bouyain’s feature debut masterfully captures The Place in Between

Halfway through The Place in Between, main character Amy (Dorylia Calmel) observes passersby on the streets of Bobo (Burkina Faso), in a scene that encapsulates Sarah Bouyain’s delicate yet...  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/France

Violence of the gaze in Kechiche’s Black Venus

Saartjie Baartman, an icon for many South Africans, leaves Cape Town in 1810 for London, along with her master, the merchant Pieter Caezar, who intends to put her on show in a travelling fair....  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

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