Tag: 2019 Venice Film Festival

Only the Animals | Review

Catfish People: Moll Returns to the Ripple Effects of Identity Issues In the early 2000s, German born Dominik Moll was a fast-rising director of contemporary...

Waiting for the Barbarians | Review

Enemy at the Gate: Guerra Heads to the International Frontier with Flat Coetzee Adaptation The richness and heft of Ciro Guerra’s cinema gets lost somehow...

Ad Astra | Review

All Alone in the World: Gray Elegantly Propels Trademark Themes & Style into Outer Space The curiosity of witnessing James Gray try his hand at...

The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – Venice 2019

There’s much to be excited for in the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival, the 76th edition of the world’s oldest major film festival. Of...

2019 Giornate degli Autori: Dominik Moll, Fabienne Berthaud & Bustamante Among the Selections

After competing in Berlin earlier this year with Tremors, Guatemalan helmer Jayro Bustamante can say 2019 was a stupendous year (with two films premiering...

The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!

Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.