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Competition


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

Ice and fire from Gabrielle

Master stroke last night at la Mostra with the screening in official competition of Gabrielle, impeccable demonstration of the talent of French filmmaker Patrice Chéreau. Aided by exceptional...  

05/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Competition

International plot for Zanussi

Life is hard for an idealist. An idealist such as Wiktor, Polish ambassador to Uruguay, ex musicologist and activist in the Solidarnosc movement, forced to face daily hypocrisy. Diplomatic plots,...  

04/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Competition

The intransigence of Amants Réguliers

Faithful to his place as incorruptible inheritor of the Nouvelle Vague, the French filmmaker Philippe Garrel delivered this morning with Les Amants réguliers, projected in official competition, a...  

03/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Competition

De Oliveira and the magical mirror

The thing which always strike us with the great Portuguese filmmaker is his ability (in spite of his age, 97 years old!) to capture us, to enrich us with his language, to captivate us with his...  

01/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Competition

Three French in the hunt for the Lion

Since Louis Malle won in 1987 with Au revoir les enfants, no French filmmaker has triumphed at Venice, even if French production won the Golden Lion in 1993 with Bleu from the Pole Krzystof...  

30/08/2005 | Venice 2005 | Competition

A couple of French couples

This year’s official selection includes three French productions : an usual guest, Michael Haneke, Dominik Moll's third film and Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's second feature film  

22/04/2005 | Cannes 2005 | Competition

That dark music of the heart

Jacques Audiard’s last film, De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté (That beat my heart skipped), in competition in Berlin, won many people’s approval. This film, a tribute to James Toback’s Fingers, is...  

22/02/2005 | Berlinale 2005 | Competition

Sophie’s choice

The public’s reaction after the screening had left no doubt about Marc Rothemund’s chances to win a Bear. His Sophie in Sophie Scholl, The Last Days is tragic and strong like a modern Joan of Arc....  

21/02/2005 | Berlinale 2005 | Competition

Danish accusations

‘When we started working on this project, we had no idea where it would take us. It is not a film about pedophilia, it is about being accused of something you have not done.’ Jacob Thuesen was...  

19/02/2005 | Berlinale 2005 | Competition

The blue halo of Hirohito

In Solnze, Aleksandr Sokurov - a frequent guest in Berlin - keeps exploring his gallery of historical characters looking back on their lives as they grow old.  

18/02/2005 | Berlinale 2005 | Competition

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