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Competition / France


573 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

Interview: Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

“To me, a person is basically lonely, despite family or religion or any other community”

VENICE 2022: While dealing with the subject of loneliness, the Japanese writer-director inflicts cruelty on his characters, but also shows them some hope and love  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Love Life

Review: Love Life

VENICE 2022: Rising Japanese maestro Kôji Fukada steps up to his first major festival competition slot with this neatly structured tale of intersecting marriages  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: L’immensità

Review: L’immensità

VENICE 2022: Emanuele Crialese recounts her gender-fluid adolescence in a sophisticated and colourful film, set apart by the starry presence of Penélope Cruz  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Other People’s Children

Review: Other People’s Children

VENICE 2022: With brilliantly subtle simplicity, Rebecca Zlotowski paints an incredible portrait of a woman in love, without children, beautifully acted by Virginie Efira  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Athena

Review: Athena

VENICE 2022: Romain Gavras delivers an adrenaline-fuelled and highly emotional family tragedy that doubles as a potent allegory for the tensions of the French banlieue  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: A Couple

Review: A Couple

VENICE 2022: Frederick Wiseman tries his hand at fiction for a second time, delivering a radical work about the passion and torments of Sophie Tolstoi vis-à-vis her famous husband  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Aida Begic  • Director of A Ballad

Interview: Aida Begic • Director of A Ballad

"I wanted to make a love story and experiment with everything that is 'forbidden' in arthouse cinema"

The Bosnian filmmaker tried her hand at romantic comedy for the first time in her latest film, which opened the Sarajevo Film Festival  

23/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Review: A Ballad

Review: A Ballad

Aida Begić’s Brechtian and melancholic comedy finds a young divorcee returning to her hometown to re-examine her life  

17/08/2022 | Sarajevo 2022 | Competition

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Saturn Bowling

"I had to embrace the subject, and to show courage"

The French director discusses her very dark film noir with a very scary protagonist  

16/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

Interview: Alessandro Comodin • Director of The Adventures of Gigi the Law

"The film is in a way a tribute to these typical village characters"

In his latest film, awarded with the festival's Special Jury Prize, the Italian filmmaker explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

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