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The Quiet Son (Jouer avec le feu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Father Knows Best: The Coulin Sisters Examine the Detrimental Ripples of Fascism
With their third feature, The Quiet Son, French directing duo Delphine and Muriel...
Maldoror | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion: Du Welz Revisits Bungled Belgian Murder Case
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is...
Harvest | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization
Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...
No Sleep Till | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Eye of the Norm: Simpson Looks at Coastal Coasting with Minimalist, Passive POV
There is a new breed of emerging American indie filmmakers who are...
Campo di Battaglia (Battlefield) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Down with the Sickness: Amelio Probes Wartime Ethical Dilemmas
The tagline for Battlefield, the latest from Italian auteur Gianni Amelio, could very well read “You...
And Their Children After Them | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Teenage Wasteland: Boukherma Bros. Sprawl with Coming-of-Age Melodrama
French directing twins Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma swing hard with their fourth feature, And Their Children After...
Three Friends (Trois amies) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Lyon Lies Bleeding: Mouret Explores L’amour Fou (Encore)
Even for those unfamiliar with the filmography of Emmanuel Mouret, his latest film, Three Friends will unequivocally...
Homegrown | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Been Caught Stealing: Premo Watches the Pendulum Swing Right
Utilizing the January 6 United States Capitol attack as the docu’s rousing finale, Homegrown delves deep...
Kill the Jockey | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors
Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill...
Quiet Life | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Do You Know Where You’re Going To?: Avranas Analyzes Syndrome of a New Century
For his fifth narrative feature, Quiet Life, Greek Weird Wave alum...
Planète B | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Say My Name Say My Name: Rapin Conquers Hearts, Minds and VR HeadSets in Wonky Digital Dystopia Piece
After exploring themes of rebirth and reincarnation...
2024 Venice Film Festival: Eric Lavallée’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!
It's not often the case, but on paper, the 2024 edition of the Venice Film Festival appears poised to outshine the Cannes Film Festival...
Exclusive Clip: Invalid Expire Dates in Aude Léa Rapin’s ‘Planet B’
After splashing in the Critics' Week section on the Croisette with Heroes Don't Die (2019), Aude Léa Rapin returns to another Critics' Week section...
Exclusive Trailer: Anna & Cristi Are Cost-effective in Ciro De Caro’s ‘Taxi Monamour’
Known for his debut feature Spaghetti Story (2013), Italian filmmaker Ciro De Caro makes a return visit to the Giornate degli Autori programme this...
FYC: Top 10 Cannes Storylines That Will Shape The Awards Race
With the Venice Film Festival set to break bread this week we thought it was time to look back at the legit contenders for...
Extramarital Excitement: Dakota Johnson & Adria Arjona Join Michael Angelo Covino’s ‘Splitsville’
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin will continue to examine relationship woes, lows and highs with a new sophomore feature film packaged with thesps...
New Order: Noomi Rapace Not Waiting for Permission in Teona Strugar Mitevska’s ‘Mother’
Noomi Rapace is set to have big shoes to fill or perhaps a white sari with blue stripes as she will take on a...
Vital Vigo: Newcomers Llúcia Garcia & Mitch Topline Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’
Last September, we had the first details on what Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winning Alcarràs (read review) filmmaker Carla Simón was cooking up...
Quo Vadis, Aida?: The Missing Piece – Žbanić To Explore Psychology of Women Still Searching
Last September, we were thrilled to share a small yet significant piece of news: Jasmila Žbanić was preparing a sequel to her acclaimed film...
Exclusive Clip: The Kids Aren’t All Right in Alexandros Avranas ‘Quiet Life’
After winning the Silver Lion for Best Director with Miss Violence (2013), Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas returns to the Lido in the Orizzonti section...
Interview: Mika Gustafson – Paradise is Burning
Swedish filmmaker Mika Gustafson shifts from the docu world beginnings to her fiction feature debut in Paradise is Burning - a selection in the...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Saulė Bliuvaitė Wins Pardo d’Oro for Toxic (Akiplėša)
The 2024 film festival summer closed out with the prizing at the Locarno Film Festival and it's the debut feature of a Lithuanian filmmaker...
By the Stream | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Right Sketch, Wrong Skit: Sangsoo Scans Patterns in Bittersweet Interludes
Perspectives of regret and the uncertain odyssey of retrospection emphasize the undertones of perennial auteur...
The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle
Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...
New Dawn Fades | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity
Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the...
Toxic (Akiplėša) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Taste of a Poison Paradise: Bliuvaite Explores the Commodification of Women’s Bodies
Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė perhaps could not have contrived a more succinct...
Cent mille milliards | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Unhappy Hooker: Vernier Explores Ennui in Monaco
Interconnected drifters aligned with sex work once again provide the backbone for Virgil Vernier’s third feature 100,000,000,000,000...
Agora | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Dead Don’t Die: Slim Sets Adrift in Tedious Metaphors
For his third feature film, Agora, Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim continues in the realm...
2024 European Film Awards: Audiard, Guiraudie, Fargeat, Gomes & Rasoulof Among First Selections
The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items....
Moon | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Bitter Moon: Ayub Concocts a Taut Domestic Thriller
“It takes time for a bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its...
Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Wind Carries On: Mateus Crafts Political Fable Fusing Past & Present
In her debut film, Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind), which finds a...
2024 TIFF: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet, Pedro Almodóvar & Maura Delpero Land in Toronto
Filmmaker Brady Corbet will have to schlep twenty-six reels from Venice Italy to Toronto's Pearson Airport as The Brutalist is confirmed as part of...
Weightless | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Big Empty: Fgaier Crash Lands with Sentimental Drivel
For her directorial debut Weightless (Sulla terra leggeri), film editor Sara Fgaier opens her narrative with a...
Transamazonia | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Smite Material: Marais Unearths Jungle Cliches
It’s been over a decade since South African director Pia Marais’ last feature, and she’s spent six years working...
2024 San Sebastián: Gabriela Amaral Almeida, Natalia López Gallardo, Rondero/Valadez, Hernán Rosselli & Francisco Lezama in Co-Prod Forum
Most of the projects we find listed in the annual selections for the San Sebastian Co-Production Forum are at the very least two, mostly...
Salve Maria | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Good Mother: Coll Examines Motherhood as Psychological Trauma
Seeing as director Mar Coll punctuates her third feature Salve Maria with chapters utilizing quotes from...
Drowning Dry | Review
Dry Spell: Bareiša Explores Trauma in the Abstract
Repetitive patterns once again provide the narrative parameters reinforcing oblique happenings for Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša in...
Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama
Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...
The Sparrow in the Chimney | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
There’s a Ghost in Me: Zurcher Explores the Necessity of Destruction
Amidst all the existential dread in Franz Kafka’s body of work, silver linings abound,...
2024 TIFF: Torill Kove, Andrés Ramírez Pulido, Rúnar Rúnarsson & Nebojša Slijepčević Shorts in Toronto
Yesterday TIFF announced a scorching Primetime programme with auteur names such as Janicza Bravo, Alfonso Cuarón, Thomas Vinterberg and Joe Wright alongside their Short...
Rustling in Pristina: Visar Morina Begins Production on “Hatixhe and Shaban”
Production has begun on Hatixhe and Shaban, the third feature film by Kosovar filmmaker Visar Morina. A project that won the prestigious Baumi Award...
Death Will Come (La Mort viendra) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
And Bear Your Eyes: Hochhäusler’s Grim Sketch of a Tangled Underworld
Death, it seems, does not quite become Christoph Hochhäusler, the Berlin School alum making...
2024 TIFF: Miguel Gomes, Wang Bing (X2) & Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias in Wavelengths Programme
We have two exciting updates from TIFF: first, the Wavelengths line-up has been unveiled; second, NYFF has confirmed that Luca Guadagnino's Queer will have...
2024 San Sebastián: Luis Ortega, Rondero & Valadez, Iair Said & Juliana Rojas in Horizontes Latinos section
After premieres in the Venice competition, a Toronto splash and an eventual NYFF slot, Luis Ortega's Kill The Jockey is among the fourteen films...
2024 TIFF: Eddie Huang, Steve Pink, Jen Gatien & Billy Corben World Preems in Docs Programme
The Toronto Intl. Film Festivals folks are slowly coming to the end of their selection announcements (we are still expecting them to announce some...
2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...
2024 TIFF: Kulumbegashvili, Zilbalodis, Lojkine, Soderbergh, Rankin & Sofia Bohdanowicz in Centrepiece Programme
It's year two for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival's Centrepiece programme - the place where we find films from the film festival circuit as...
Shared Báth: Huppert, Rois, Minichmayr & Eidinger Set for Ottinger’s “The Blood Countess”
It has been over a dozen years in the making. We can confirm that Isabelle Huppert has indeed remained on board, so has Sophie...
Exclusive Clip: Bérénice Béjo is Fight-or-Flight in César Díaz’s Mexico 86
Winner of the prestigious Caméra d'Or in 2019 for his debut Our Mothers (we were on hand - check out our coverage) Guatemalan filmmaker...
UCR Creative Juices: Xavier Dolan Moving Out of Retirement with new Horror Genre Film
Someone is emerging from early (filmmaker) retirement, and we might have Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux to thank for it. After a cool volunteer job...
