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

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Nostalgia and psychological horror in Avati’s Giovanna’s Father

Love and friendship are the "background noise" (in the director’s own words) to the films of Pupi Avati, who turns 70 in three months. On the Lido, the director presents Giovanna’s Father, which...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition | Italy

The Other One: The magical number two

After Barbet Schroeder’s Inju, the second French film in competition at the Venice Film Festival is appropriately titled The Other One. The film is also the second feature for the cinema by...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Ferzan Ozpetek’s destructive love

The first Italian film to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Ferzan Ozpetek’s A Perfect Day – adapted from Melania Mazzucco’s eponymous novel – is pure tragedy. An intense love...  

30/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Schroeder’s untamed Beast

The line between fiction and reality is not so much blurred as it is erased in Barbet Schroeder’s Venice Competition title Inju – The Beast in the Shadow. The SBS and La fabrique de films...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Jerichow: Secrets, lies and money

German director Christian Petzold continues his exploration of ambling lives in a bankrupt society in the Venice Competition entry Jerichow, a strong film that further consolidates his reputation...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Germany

SBS Films and UGC pin hopes on Barbet Schroeder

Selected in competition in 2000 with Our Lady of the Assassins, Barbet Schroeder will once again vie for the Golden Lion with Inju (see news) at the 65th Venice Film Festival (August 27-September...  

26/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Italian nomadism, French noir, new German cinema

Europe (represented mostly by Italy, France and Germany), quality US films, Japanese animation and a comeback from Africa make up the heart of the official competition of the upcoming Venice Film...  

29/07/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

Wenders comes home

"Fear of death is the main theme in Palermo Shooting. No one faces it. Rather, they speak of the absence of death," said Wim Wenders at the film’s press conference this morning. His film, which...  

24/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/Germany

Cantet reveals hidden world of teaching

An experimental director who subtly explores social realities, Laurent Cantet received an enthusiastic reception this morning at the screening of his fourth feature, Entre les murs (“Between the...  

24/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/France

Andreotti as a lethal “god” in Sorrentino’s new film

As explosive as a bomb, as impetuous as a swollen river, Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo (“The Deity”) has arrived on the Croisette, the second Italian film in competition at a winding-down Cannes....  

23/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/Italy

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