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...

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Aisha Can’t Fly Away | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Buliana Simon Shines In Gritty Immigrant Story That Struggles...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’

Body horror, psychological issues, and social commentary best describe...

Alpha | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Tarik Saleh’s ‘Eagles of the Republic’

Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from...