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

Review: Reflection

Review: Reflection

VENICE 2021: In his main competition entry, Valentyn Vasyanovych doesn’t just look at the ongoing war; he stares  

08/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Valentyn Vasyanovych  • Director of Reflection

Interview: Valentyn Vasyanovych • Director of Reflection

“Inhuman torture takes place not somewhere far away, but right here in Europe”

VENICE 2021: There is no looking away in this, the latest take on the ongoing war in Ukraine, which comes on the heels of Atlantis  

07/09/2021 | 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

Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

Interview: Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

“We descended 400 metres to film the ungovernable”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director joined up with a group of speleologists in a Calabrian cave to recreate the expedition dating back to 1961  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Sundown

Review: Sundown

VENICE 2021: Michel Franco returns to the Lido with a seventh feature that feels more like an unfinished sketch  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Official Competition

Review: Official Competition

VENICE 2021: Argentina’s Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn rip the industry a new one in their satire that’s as on point as it is hilarious  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Il buco

Review: Il buco

VENICE 2021: Michelangelo Frammartino captures the breath and the rhythm of the spaces that he explores, through the story of a group of young speleologists descending into a deep cave in Calabria...  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: The Hand of God

Review: The Hand of God

VENICE 2021: “Amarcording” the Naples of his youth, Paolo Sorrentino gets to eat his Fellini cake and have his own, too  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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