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574 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 28/07/2025.

Review: America Latina

Review: America Latina

VENICE 2021: The D’Innocenzo brothers reunite with Elio Germano to offer up a feast-for-the-eyes thriller exploring men’s sense of inadequacy in the third millennium  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Review: Captain Volkonogov Escaped

VENICE 2021: Rising young Russian actor Yuriy Borisov plays the titular escaped captain in Aleksey Chupov and Natasha Merkulova’s thriller set amidst Stalin’s Great Purge  

08/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Xavier Giannoli  • Director of Lost Illusions

Interview: Xavier Giannoli • Director of Lost Illusions

“As a filmmaker, I hope that the audience can see the beauty of this civilisation, but also the cruelty”

VENICE 2021: With his adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s work, a long obsession is finally put to rest, with the director revisiting “the matrix of the modern world as we know it”  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Lost Illusions

Review: Lost Illusions

VENICE 2021: Xavier Giannoli’s lavish Balzac canvas is a colourful ride through the Paris of the splendiferous 1820s  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Happening

Review: Happening

VENICE 2021: Audrey Diwan adapts Annie Ernaux’s memoir about her attempts to have an illegal abortion in France in the 1960s  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

Interview: Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

“We descended 400 metres to film the ungovernable”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director joined up with a group of speleologists in a Calabrian cave to recreate the expedition dating back to 1961  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Sundown

Review: Sundown

VENICE 2021: Michel Franco returns to the Lido with a seventh feature that feels more like an unfinished sketch  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Il buco

Review: Il buco

VENICE 2021: Michelangelo Frammartino captures the breath and the rhythm of the spaces that he explores, through the story of a group of young speleologists descending into a deep cave in Calabria...  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Václav Kadrnka  • Director of Saving One Who Was Dead

Interview: Václav Kadrnka • Director of Saving One Who Was Dead

"To convey the personal experience my film is based on, I developed a very specific cinematic language"

The Czech filmmaker discusses the third instalment in what he describes as his “Absence of a Loved One” trilogy, which has competed for the Crystal Globe  

03/09/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | Competition

Review: Saving One Who Was Dead

Review: Saving One Who Was Dead

The latest film from Czech director Václav Kadrnka sees him return to Karlovy Vary for the first time since his 2017 Crystal Globe-winning effort Little Crusader  

02/09/2021 | Karlovy Vary 2021 | Competition

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