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Venice 2011


55 articles available in total starting from 28/04/2011. Last article published on 10/09/2011.

Almayer’s Folly, a highly personal reinterpretation of Conrad’s novel

There to present Almayer’s Folly out of competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, Chantal Akerman received special thanks from festival director Marco Müller, who praised her...  

04/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Out of Competition

Lanthimos has chance to impress Mostra’s jury with Alps

After winning the Un Certain Regard Award in 2009 with Dogtooth, the gates of Venice open for Yorgos Lanthimos’ third feature, Alps. An absurd tale about humanity, loss and not following rules,...  

03/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Café de Flore: two destinies so close and yet so far

The third day of Venice Days at the 68th Venice International Film Festival was marked by a moving performance by Vanessa Paradis, who plays the courageous mother of a child with Down’s syndrome...  

03/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Venice Days

Scialla, to the rhythm of rap between school and family

Despite this being his directing debut with Scialla, selected for the Controcampo section at the Venice Film Festival, Francesco Bruni is not exactly new to cinema. A screenwriter since 1988, he...  

02/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Controcampo Italiano

That Summer burns love in the name of Art

Paul meets Frédéric, a painter who lives with Angèle, an actress who appears in films in Italy. To have enough to live on whilst waiting to become an actor, Paul works as an extra. On a film set,...  

02/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

A Dangerous Method sets love affair in the beginnings of Psychoanalysis

Canadian director David Cronenberg today presented his latest film, the eagerly-awaited German/Canadian co-production A Dangerous Method at the Venice International Film Festival. In 1904, Sabina...  

02/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

Venice Days: Violated childhood in Gaglianone's Ruggine

A group of children, immigrants from the south in the suburbs of a city in northern Italy. A well-esteemed doctor, specialising in pediatrics, a citizen who's above any suspicion. An encounter in...  

02/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Venice Days

Polanski avoids “Carnage” by making Mostra audience laugh

Screening very early on in the competition at the 68th Venice Film Festival, Carnage is adapted from the play The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, who also co-wrote the film’s screenplay with Roman...  

01/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Competition

W.E.: In bed with a twice-divorced woman

The second feature film of singer-dancer and occasional actress Madonna, W.E., premiered on the Lido in Venice today as an Out of Competition title. Reactions were mixed. The follow-up to her...  

01/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Out of Competition

Ki, Land of Oblivion and Carnage unspool at Venice Mostra

Poland is first and foremost (but not exclusively) present as a co-producing country at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, which opened yesterday. The line-up includes three titles...  

01/09/2011 | Venice 2011 | Poland

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