Author: Deborah Young

Little Mario and his grouchy granddad (Toni Servillo) spend a ghostly weekend alone together, one that turns into an existential battle of wills in Mario Martone’s slyly amusing adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s novel ‘Trick’ (‘Scherzetto’).

In anonymous interviews with Secret Service eyewitnesses about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, including the extent and methods of killing that have made civilian casualties astronomical, ‘NAZA’ is an anguishing testament to inhumanity.

A mammoth 4-hour extravaganza of brilliant, cutting-edge cinema that has been in the making for the last 20 years, Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s wildly imaginative critique of Soviet society DAU found an appreciative showcase in Venice competition.

Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to storytelling from a child’s POV in the visually dazzling and narratively charming ‘Look Back’, where two talented schoolgirls break into the magical world of manga comics.