Tag: 2020 Venice Film Festival
Never Gonna Snow Again | Review
Intimate Strangers: Szumowska & Englert Explore Despondency & Isolation
Our innate capacity for constructing the vehicles of our own alienation and ennui inform the backdrop...
My Tender Matador | Review
Pray Away the Pinochet: Sepulveda Cruises Castro with Striking Adaptation
While there’s a bounty of burgeoning directors who have grown out of the New Chilean...
The World to Come | Review
Pitch Rider to Perdition: Fastvold Fans Flames of Forbidden Desire in Masterful Period Drama
Few and far between are cinematic narratives which attempt to, much...
In Between Dying | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review
In the Mood for Love: Baydarov Searches for a Real Love in Enigmatic Road Trip
All you need is love, if you can find it,...
The Furnace | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review
Easier for a Camel: MacKay Unearths Troubling History in Revisionist Western Debut
Like Jennifer Kent before him with 2018’s The Nightingale, director Roderick MacKay mines...
Apples | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review
Blight of My Life: Nikou Finds Meaning Through Its Absence in Exceptional Debut
Somewhere along the way, the Greek Weird Wave has seemingly evolved from...
You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion
With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...