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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of Other People’s Children

Interview: Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of Other People’s Children

“I felt that Rachel was the person I needed to be at a certain point and could not be”

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the French director, who has crafted her new feature as a cinematic confrontation with female infertility  

10/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Alice Diop • Director of Saint Omer

Interview: Alice Diop • Director of Saint Omer

“This is a film based on words. But with so many words, you need silences, too”

VENICE 2022: The French filmmaker delivers a stunner of a movie and a real punch to the heart with her latest effort  

10/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Our Ties

Review: Our Ties

VENICE 2022: A tragedy calls into question the equilibrium of a group of siblings and a family in this moving film by Roschdy Zem, which stars Sami Bouajila amongst its impeccable cast  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Romain Gavras • Director of Athena

Interview: Romain Gavras • Director of Athena

"Suddenly, the neighbourhood had kind of become the Cinecittà of the banlieue"

VENICE 2022: The French director talked to us about the genesis of a film as spectacular as it is sensitive and moving  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

Interview: Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

“I told the story that was in my heart”

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the Italian director about his film based on his own adolescence, before transitioning  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Review: Saint Omer

Review: Saint Omer

VENICE 2022: Documentary-maker Alice Diop ventures into fiction with a sharp, singular and cryptic film exploring the surface and plunging the deepest depths of an infanticide trial  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

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

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