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Venice 2008

65 articles available in total starting from 30/06/2008. Last article published on 08/09/2008.

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Du Welz’s post-tsunami horror

The international premiere of Vinyan screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. The second feature by Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz (after the successful The Ordeal) plunges its...  

30/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Out of competition

Pasolini’s Machan wins hearts on the Lido

Machan, the feature debut by producer-turned-director Uberto Pasolini (Palookaville, The Full Monty), screened to a full house and a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival today. Based on a...  

30/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Venice Days

The Nightguards’ post-war pains

Is it a "regurgitation of the war" that Mehir feels rise up in his stomach, reaching his head and heart? Or is it merely "matrimonial empathy", the same sickness that his wife has been suffering...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week

Schroeder’s untamed Beast

The line between fiction and reality is not so much blurred as it is erased in Barbet Schroeder’s Venice Competition title Inju – The Beast in the Shadow. The SBS and La fabrique de films...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Puccini according to Paolo Benvenuti

The challenging work of Paolo Benvenuti has never been so beautiful: his latest film, Puccini e la fanciulla (“Puccini and the Young Girl”), co-directed with his romantic and professional partner...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Out of competition

Möderndorfer offers dark Landscape of his country

Presented by Roberto Barzanti, president of the Venice Days Association, Slovenian writer-director Vinko Möderndorfer’s second feature film Landscape No. 2 screened to heartfelt applause today on...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Venice Days/Slovenia

Toye returns to cinema with Nowhere Man’s everyman

Patrice Toye is back on the big screen after a 10-year absence, with her second feature, the dryly witty Nowhere Man. The film stars Frank Vercruyssen (who also worked with the director in her...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Venice Days/Belgium

The noble intentions of PA-RA-DA

It will not suffice to appease the controversy sparked by German daily ‘Der Spiegel’ (which in the last few days has accused the Venice Film Festival of protectionism), but the figure is...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Horizons

Cold Lunch’s chilling stories

"Nobody wants to be alone, do they?" says young Heidi on the phone to her mother. Her husband mistreats her, abandons her and their baby of a few months and, once reconciled with her, makes love...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Critics’ Week/Norway

Jerichow: Secrets, lies and money

German director Christian Petzold continues his exploration of ambling lives in a bankrupt society in the Venice Competition entry Jerichow, a strong film that further consolidates his reputation...  

28/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Germany

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