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2413 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

Oldman shines in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The first English-language film of Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, after his international breakout with the vampire drama Let the Right One In, is the John le Carré adaptation Tinker, Tailor,...  

05/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Satrapi and Paronnaud delve into live-action with Chicken with Plums

Although animation is always present in Chicken with Plums, the second feature from Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, who are famous for their Cannes-awarded animation Persepolis is mainly...  

04/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Steve McQueen’s Shame hits the Lido

With a name like Steve McQueen, the celebrated British visual artist was perhaps destined to one day work in the cinema industry. His second feature after, his Caméra d’Or winning Hunger, again...  

04/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Lanthimos has chance to impress Mostra’s jury with Alps

After winning the Un Certain Regard Award in 2009 with Dogtooth, the gates of Venice open for Yorgos Lanthimos’ third feature, Alps. An absurd tale about humanity, loss and not following rules,...  

03/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

That Summer burns love in the name of Art

Paul meets Frédéric, a painter who lives with Angèle, an actress who appears in films in Italy. To have enough to live on whilst waiting to become an actor, Paul works as an extra. On a film set,...  

02/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

A Dangerous Method sets love affair in the beginnings of Psychoanalysis

Canadian director David Cronenberg today presented his latest film, the eagerly-awaited German/Canadian co-production A Dangerous Method at the Venice International Film Festival. In 1904, Sabina...  

02/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Polanski avoids “Carnage” by making Mostra audience laugh

Screening very early on in the competition at the 68th Venice Film Festival, Carnage is adapted from the play The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, who also co-wrote the film’s screenplay with Roman...  

01/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Venice: Arnold, Alfredson and Steve McQueen in Competition

The 68th Venice Film Festival has already set a record: all films in the Official Selection (22 in Competition, 19 Out-of-Competition, 24 in Horizons) will be shown in world premiere. "This is the...  

28/07/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Room 304 shows more than it tells

Entirely filmed in a hotel in Zagreb, Birgitte Stærmose’s first feature, Room 304, is a psychological drama that offers little detail on the background of its plot, instead building suspense ahead...  

11/07/2011 | Karlovy Vary 2011 | Competition/Denmark/Croatia

Not your average Gypsy

The experienced Slovak director Martin Šulik (The City of Sun) has made the very watchable (if not exactly original) film Gypsy, which had its world premiere in the Competition of the Karlovy Vary...  

08/07/2011 | Karlovy Vary 2011 | Competition | Slovakia/Czech Republic

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