Tag: 2026 Venice Film Festival

It’s been an oddly muted year at the Venice Film Festival. When the slate was announced it was obvious that ...

Marco Bechis’ deeply moving, emotionally shattering film Back to Buenos Aires (Ritorno a Buenos Aires) is a fictional story based ...

Among the many other features world premiering at the 83rd Venice Film Festival are these worthy titles. Also, a mention ...

“I’m at a strange juncture,” admits the main character, Léo (Melvil Poupaud),—a massive understatement—in French writer-director Nicolas Pariser’s intoxicating, perspicacious ...

In Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Dębowski’s What Belongs to Others (Cudze Rzeczy) sourpussed Kasia (Monika Kwiatkowska) and her bullying boyfriend Darek ...

As someone who grew up in a slightly volatile Italian family (especially my extended famiglia) where resentments, jealousies and misplaced ...

Mykyta Gibalenko’s feature debut, Camouflage, begins promisingly enough, in 2021, over a year before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Vitaly ...

I had high hopes for Florian Zeller’s Bunker. Firstly, I loved his two previous films, the Oscar-winning, The Father as ...

Avan Jamal sears the screen as Vyan, a crackerjack, Kurdish female sniper, dealing with past trauma, who returns to the ...

Riccardo Scamarcio has remained one of my favorite international actors creating terrifically nuanced characters for over two decades in films ...