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Venice 2010


67 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 13/09/2010.

De la Iglesia explores horror and passion in A Sad Trumpet Ballad

Spanish master of the grotesque Alex de la Iglesia exorcises the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War with A Sad Trumpet Ballad, in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Fiction and historical...  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition/Spain

Heaven Without Earth captures sounds from the ether, images from nature

Venice Days title Heaven Without Earth is a true festival film, in a genre of its own. Perhaps best described as a creative documentary, in the film co-directors Giovanni Maderna and Sara Pozzoli...  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Italy

Fishing, rap and immigration in Scimeca’s Malavoglia

The epic of the defeated par excellence, portrayed in literature by Giovanni Verga and then recreated in film by Luchino Visconti, has been updated for the third millennium in Pasquale Scimeca’s...  

07/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Horizons | Italy

Martone’s We Believed looks at the birth of a nation

The much-anticipated third Italian film in competition at the Mostra, Mario Martone’s We Believed is a 204-minute-long journey into nineteenth-century Italian history through the destinies of...  

07/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Guerin, Guest of elsewhere

What does it mean to attend a festival? And what kind of relationships are built around an event that, by its very nature, should be collective? These are two questions which, in his own way, José...  

07/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Horizons | Spain

Tanovic elicits laughter and tears at the Cirkus

Danis Tanovic returns to form and to his homeland in Cirkus Columbia, slowly but deftly taking us by the hand in a story of love, war and a lucky black cat – with all the humanity and wit of his...  

07/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Venice Days/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vallanzasca, the crime novel about "beautiful René"

After last year’s storm over The Big Dream, Michele Placido presented his Vallanzasca – The Angels of Evil out of competition today at the Mostra, once again attracting controversy. Relatives of...  

06/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Out of Competition | Italy

Coppola’s film noir of the soul, Hai Paura del Buio

“The film interweaves two stories: one is the fruit of my imagination, the other emerged from the documentary I shot in Melfi for MTV”. Indeed, Hai Paura del Buio – Massimo Coppola’s debut feature...  

06/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Critics’ Week | Italy

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

Lucky Red picks up Machete and Incendies and Servillo praised by foreign press

At Venice, Lucky Red has acquired the Italian distribution rights to Robert Rodriguez’s action movie Machete (presented out of competition), and Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies...  

05/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Market/Italy

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