VENICE 2022

World War III

Dec 7, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, VENICE 2022

A manual day laborer is selected to play Hitler in a film, but this stroke of “luck” leads to terrible tragedies on the film set in Houman Seyedi’s expertly crafted, realistic/metaphoric tale about authoritarian society.

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Dec 5, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, VENICE 2022

Mexican master Alejandro G. Iñárritu (‘Birdman’, ‘The Revenant’) takes time off for a very personal project with autobiographical and cinematic undertones.

Stonewalling

Oct 1, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2022

Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s latest is slow but thoughtful and strangely engaging on the subject of a young Chinese woman on the verge of making a potentially life-changing decision.

Blanquita

Sep 14, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, VENICE 2022

A complex thriller based on a true sexual abuse scandal involving Chilean politicians, priests, businessmen and homeless children, where nobody is wholly innocent or guilty.

Venice Film Festival 2022: The Awards

Sep 11, 2022 | Festivals, VENICE 2022

Strongly worded films with clear social and political attitudes took the prizes at the 79th Venice Film Festival, led by Laura Poitras’s Golden Lion winner ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.’

Venice 2022: The Verdict

Sep 11, 2022 | Festivals, VENICE 2022

A crowded, often frustrating reset of the first post-Covid festival partly obscured the high-quality programming.

Vicenta B.

Sep 10, 2022 | Festivals, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022, Spotlight, Toronto, VENICE 2022

Director Carlos Lechuga sends a powerful farewell letter to a country adrift in depression and despair in this heartbreaking chronicle of the post-Cuban revolution.

No Bears

Sep 9, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, VENICE 2022

The world premiere of Jafar Panahi’s simple but militantly engrossing ‘No Bears’, which comes to grips with the thin line between art and reality, took place in Venice competition while the director remained in prison in Tehran after his second arrest on July 11.

The Listener

Sep 9, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto, VENICE 2022

Steve Buscemi makes a rare return to directing for ‘The Listener’, starring Tessa Thompson, a well-meaning but slender single-person drama about hurting and healing in a post-Covid world.

Goliath

Sep 8, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, VENICE 2022

Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s reinvention of the western is a cutting political allegory, a taut revenge tale and a visual extravaganza rolled into one.

Awards Corner

VENICE 2022