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638 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 19/02/2026.

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

Interview: François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

"I like characters who are a bit mysterious, with an inner life"

VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker discusses his adaptation of Albert Camus's famous novel, how he approached the opacity of the main character and contextualised the colonial era  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi  • Director of Below the Clouds

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Below the Clouds

“Shooting in black and white has helped me to tell the story of a different Naples from the one in our imagination”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us about his documentary, a journey through space, time and memory, between what Naples has been and what it could be  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Father Mother Sister Brother

Review: Father Mother Sister Brother

VENICE 2025: Jim Jarmusch’s latest effort brings familial awkwardness to the fore with quiet humour and elegance  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin

Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin

VENICE 2025: In the style of a thriller, Olivier Assayas directs a gripping epic recounting the hardening of Russian power, from perestroika to Putin's murderous solitary dictatorship  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

Interview: László Nemes • Director of Orphan

“This backstory has haunted my family’s lives ever since it actually happened”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director found the main story and protagonist for his new film in his own family, but simultaneously drew on his own experiences in the 1980s  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: No Other Choice

Review: No Other Choice

VENICE 2025: Park Chan-wook blends gruesome comedy and capitalist critique in his adaptation of Donald E Westlake's novel The Ax  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Below the Clouds

Review: Below the Clouds

VENICE 2025: With his new documentary dedicated to the Neapolitan territory, Gianfranco Rosi returns to the slopes of Vesuvius, in search of the welding between ancient life and today  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

Interview: Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

“This film had to be honest”

VENICE 2025: Freedom doesn’t come cheap in the French director’s new feature, but it’s still worth all the trouble  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: At Work

Review: At Work

VENICE 2025: Bastien Bouillon excels in Valérie Donzelli’s surprisingly deep dive into the vocation of writing  

29/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Orphan

Review: Orphan

VENICE 2025: László Nemes’ visually rich yet narratively uneven film tells a story of fractured families and a wounded nation  

28/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

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