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Venice 2009

67 articles available in total starting from 10/06/2009. Last article published on 12/09/2009.

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Solitude has no (skin) colour in Good Morning Aman

Forty-five-year-old Rome-born Teodoro and 18-year-old Somali-born Aman seem to have two very different journeys and destinies. Separated by skin colour, age and life experiences, they nonetheless...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Italy

I Am Love, melodrama tailor-made for Swinton

With I Am Love, a slick melodrama told from a female perspective, Luca Guadagnino brings to fruition a project he had been working on for many years with his friend Tilda Swinton. The film is...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Horizons/Italy

Hormann’s Desert Flower blooms on Lido

A long standing ovation and tears followed the official screening of Sherry Hormann’s Desert Flower, a crowd-pleaser with a very important and timely message. The film tells the incredible life...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Germany

Paskaljevic returns with not-so-romantic Honeymoons

Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic returns to Venice after his highly acclaimed The Powder Keg, which screened in the festival in 1999. This time, with the first-ever Albanian-Serbian...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days, Serbia/Albania

Duris gives Volpi Cup-worthy performance in Persecution

Four years after Gabrielle, which earned its star Isabelle Huppert a Special Golden Lion Award, Patrice Chéreau returns to competition at Venice with Persecution. Although it doesn’t repeat the...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

Love, period, in Stefano Consiglio’s latest doc

In Venice Days documentary L’Amore e Basta (“Love, Period”), Italian director Stefano Consiglio interviews nine happy, long-term gay and lesbian couples. What emerges is a look at love, period,...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

Communists hoping to reach space in Cosmonaut

Dressed like a young bride, Luciana is on her way to receive her first communion along with her friends. But suddenly, she breaks away from the group and flees the church to return home. Later,...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Controcampo Italiano

Waiting for a miracle in Lourdes

Cinema and the sacred have always been profoundly intertwined and great film masters have been drawn to the subject of spirituality and the aesthetic and symbolic richness of religion: Bresson,...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Austria-France

Love lasting ten winters in Dieci Inverni

How much time does it take to realise that a stranger we meet by chance is “the right person”, the love of our life? For Silvestro and Camilla, it probably only takes a glance, the look they steal...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Controcampo Italiano

Monzon’s Cell 211 takes genre film to compelling heights

A standing ovation followed the Venice Days screening of Cell 211 by Spanish director Daniel Monzon. The prison drama was presented by the director and a large part of its powerful cast: Luis...  

04/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Spain

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