Tag: 2021 Venice Film Festival
La caja (The Box) | Review
Father Knows Best: Vigas Caps His Father/Son Trilogy with Blunt Brutality
In his long-gestating follow-up to 2014 Golden Lion winner From Afar, Venezuela’s Lorenzo Vigas...
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon | Review
The Moon in the Gutter: Amirpour Shoots for the Moon and Misses
For her third directorial outing, Ana Lily Amirpour remains fascinated with B-movie grunge...
Lost Illusions | Review
F is for Fake: Giannoli Highlights Prescience in Adaptation of Balzac Classic
The erosion of romanticism and idealism is at the core of Honore de...
Reflection | Review
In the Fog Mirror: Vasyanovych Punishes with Numbing Exercise on War & Trauma
Following up on his international breakout, Atlantis (2019), Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych...
Sundown | Review
Slaughter House Rules: Franco Continues with Cinema of Distress
The English playwright Robert Bolt wrote “Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.”...
Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) | Review
The Lives of Mothers: Almodovar’s Melodrama Mines the Personal and Political
Coincidences abound in Parallel Mothers, the latest soap dish from Spain’s perennial auteur, Pedro...
The Lost Daughter | Review
Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation
“Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...
The Hand Of God | Review
Idle Hands: Sorrentino’s Sprawling Saga a Wayward Bildungsroman
There’s almost as much to admire as there is to dismiss in The Hand of God, Paolo...
The Power of the Dog | Review
Dog Days Aren’t Over: Campion Returns with Menacing Gothic Western
Although Jane Campion’s work in television has created an innovative and expansive platform for the...
Spencer | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Larrain Crafts Empathetic Portrait of an Icon in Anguish
The eternal impact of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose...
Last Night in Soho | Review
Profondo Glosso: Wright Falters with Glossy, Pseudo-Feminist Ghost Story
Opening upon joyful musical reverie and descending into vibrant color palettes, Edgar Wright’s attempt at...
Dune | Review
Spice Up Your Life: Villeneuve Embarks with Somber Take on the Sci-Fi Classic
The journey of Dune to the big screen has been an arduous...
Halloween Kills | Review
Boogeyman Nights: Green Overextends Himself in the Myers Saga
There is truth in having too much of a good thing, or, rather, adhering to the...
Captain Volkonogov Escaped | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Chupov & Merkulova Explore Redemption in Scathing, Dramatic Thriller
For their third feature, Captain Volkonogov Escaped, directors Aleksey Chupov...
Sala Web 2021 x Festival Scope – Venice International Film Festival
As our Nicholas Bell is closing out our coverage on the Lido (we'll have plenty of more reviews), the Festival Scope folks are once...
Ariaferma (The Inner Cage) | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
Guards and Monsters: Costanzo Finds Humanity in Balanced Ratios
Utilizing the novel opportunity of how power wanes in the crumbling of an institution’s viability, Italian...
Trenches | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
Gone to Graveyards: Bureau Mines the Surreal Tragedy of Ongoing Ukrainian Conflict
Ukrainian auteur Sergei Loznitsa has, heretofore, presented the most comprehensive cinematic examinations of...
The Card Counter | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
January Man: Schrader Fans the Underbelly in Morose Facade of Lost Souls
Paul Schrader has obsessively charted the propensity of man's repressed compulsions consuming even...
Promises | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
Broken is the Golden Bowl: Kruithof Rips at the Red Tape in Character Driven Political Drama
It’s not so much politics as usual in Les...
2021 Giornate degli Autori: Plenty of First Features Plus Antoine Barraud, Iván Fund & Aly Muritiba
And finally it's the Giornate degli Autori folks headed by topper Gaia Furrer that have unveiled their sidebar selections. Of the ten feature films...
2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP
While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...
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