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

Gallo is hunted man in Essential Killing

There is not a moment of respite for viewers in Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 83-minute-long political thriller Essential Killing, full of blood and wild nature. Presented in competition at...  

06/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Poland

Mazzacurati’s The Passion takes ironic look at filmmaking

Gianni Dubois, played by tragicomic looking Silvio Orlando, is a fifty-something director , a once-promising auteur who hasn’t managed to make a film for the last five years. His producer gets him...  

04/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Deneuve gets political in Potiche

While the photo of Catherine Deneuve in a red 1970s Adidas tracksuit has already been seen across the world, journalists at the Mostra enjoyed moments of good humour at the screening of Potiche, a...  

04/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

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

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