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

Review: Earwig

Review: Earwig

Lucile Hadzihalilovic signs a cryptic and bewitching work, a subjugating saturnian masterpiece pushing the doors of other dimensions  

13/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Jan P Matuszyński  • Director of Leave No Traces

Interview: Jan P Matuszyński • Director of Leave No Traces

“I came up with this concept that maybe I made this film out of fear”

VENICE 2021: A leading light of new Polish cinema, the director talks us through his complex true-life tale of the aftermath of a death in police custody  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Stéphane Brizé  • Director of Another World

Interview: Stéphane Brizé • Director of Another World

“Wow, we thought Brizé would do a left-wing caricature – but he shows some truthful things here!”

VENICE 2021: The French director explains how he writes screenplays with his trusted collaborator Olivier Gorce, plus his organic way of working with Vincent Lindon  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Another World

Review: Another World

VENICE 2021: Vincent Lindon sees huge chunks of foul play in the executive suite as Stéphane Brizé brings his acclaimed “work trilogy” to a first-rate conclusion  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Leave No Traces

Review: Leave No Traces

VENICE 2021: Rising Polish filmmaker Jan P Matuszyński is in competition with a sprawling procedural on the 1983 killing of student Grzegorz Przemyk in Warsaw  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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

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