Tag: Paola Freddi
The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being
Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)
Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring...
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias – Forastera
Set in Mallorca, Cata's summer is drenched in sun and lazy promise—until it is violently rewritten by the absurd, sudden death of her grandmother,...
Another End | Review
The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief
The devil’s unfortunately absent in the details of Another End, a conceptual science fiction melodrama...
Bravo Bene! | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
Investigation of a Suspicious Citizen: Maresco Salvages Cinema
“I am not interested in any filmmaker. I am not even interested in my own films…” said...
Monica | Review
Portrait of a Lady: Pallaoro Quietly Searches for Grace in Profound Reconciliation
There’s a relentless, nearly crushing sense of heartache girding Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica, his...
Princess | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Grimm Fairy Tale: De Paolis’ Neo-Realist Exploration of Migrant Sex Work Brazen, Bewildering
Life’s anything but a fairy tale for the titular character at the...
Hannah | Review
No Whale Out: Pallaoro Strikes Somber Chords with Pitch Perfect Rampling
You’ll be hard pressed to find another melodrama as inconspicuously tightlipped as Andrea Pallaoro’s...
