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2295 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

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

Paolo Sorrentino  • Director of The Hand of God

Interview: Paolo Sorrentino • Director of The Hand of God

“It’s not my fault; this is how Naples looks”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director shares some thoughts on his youthful memoir of Naples and the number of times it’s been compared to Fellini’s Amarcord  

10/09/2021 | 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

Mario Martone • Director of The King of Laughter

Interview: Mario Martone • Director of The King of Laughter

“A film about a theatre genius written like a theatrical comedy”

VENICE 2021: We met with the director of the Eduardo Scarpetta film, which is competing in the festival  

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

Gabriele Mainetti • Director of Freaks Out

Interview: Gabriele Mainetti • Director of Freaks Out

Freaks Out is a child of the historic Trump era”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director speaks about his second work, the film’s music and the production challenges associated with such a colossal project, which was a long time in the making  

09/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Freaks Out

Review: Freaks Out

VENICE 2021: Gabriele Mainetti’s second film blends pure entertainment with a reflection on diversity, but its tendency towards appropriation results in a feeling of déjà vu  

09/09/2021 | 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

Review: The King of Laughter

Review: The King of Laughter

VENICE 2021: Mario Martone’s comedy-biopic about the famous Neapolitan comedy playwright working in the early twentieth century, Eduardo Scarpetta, boasts a powerful performance from Toni Servillo  

08/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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