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Venice 2007


57 articles available in total starting from 04/04/2007. Last article published on 10/09/2007.

Kechiche’s Grain of Life

Tunis-born French director Abdellatif Kechiche presented his long-awaited new feature La Graine et le mulet on the Venetian Lido as part of the Official Competition. His previous film, L’esquive...  

03/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Molaioli's dark lake

After Lake Maggiore in Hotel Meina, the Venice Film Festival takes one more dip in the muddy waters of another bloody deed, also committed near the scintillating mirror of a lake, but contrary to...  

02/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | International Critics' Week

Melki and Asti shine under Tokyo rains

Renowned opera and theatre director Frédéric Fisbach has added cinema to his many talents with Plum Rain (La pluie des prunes), a dramatic story about French playwright François (Gilbert Melki),...  

02/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Venice Days

Loach’s Land of Freedom

After wining the Palme d’Or in Cannes for his historical war drama The Wind that Shakes the Barley, UK filmmaker Ken Loach returns to the present and his social filmmaking roots for his Venice...  

02/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Chabrol cuts Ludivine in two

Stanford White, the Manhattan architect famous for having designed Madison Square Garden at the end of the 19th century, was murdered in 1906 by a millionaire playboy, the husband of his ex-lover...  

02/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Out-of-competition Masters

A portrait of a hotel as a prison, by Lizzani

Eleven years after Celluloid, Carlo Lizzani is back on the silver screen with Hotel Meina, adapted from the book of the same name inspired to Marco Nozza by a tragic episode of the nazi-fascist...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Out of competition "Maestri"

Don’t Think About It’s crowd-pleasing debut

It took over ten minutes for the applause, hugs and congratulations to die down before the Q&A could begin after the official screening of Don’t Think About It (Non pensarci) by Gianni Zanasi,...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Venice Days

Fallen Heroes: A noir as black as night

Fallen Heroes: A noir as black as night

The first Italian title screened in Competition at the ongoing Venice Film Festival is Paolo Franchi’s Fallen Heroes, a follow-up to his acclaimed debut La spettatrice from 2004. Whereas the...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Looking for Andalucia

Looking for Andalucia

Alain Gomis' film follows the dynamic but awkward Yacine in his search for an identity in a world in which he does not fit in  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Venice Days

Rohmer's breath of fresh air

"Dear Marco, Venice has already honoured many of my films and I've also been awarded a Golden Lion for Career Achievement. I would not want people to think that my intention was to collect as many...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

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