VENICE 2023

Out of Season

Out of Season

Sep 8, 2023 | , ,

An unexpected story of loneliness and yearning from Stéphane Brizé in which two former lovers come face-to-face with the disappointments of life, beautiful in its understatement and cinematic restraint yet still generating tremendous poignancy.

Firedream

Firedream

Sep 7, 2023 | ,

Firedream offers lessons of passionate honesty in work made with love. and creativity even with some shortcomings.

Lubo

Lubo

Sep 7, 2023 | , ,

Part survival-revenge drama, part love story, Giorgio Diritti’s ‘Lubo’ addresses the Swiss state’s forcible removal of Jenisch children from their families beginning in the 1930s, and while Franz Rogowski’s magnetism keeps his morally complex character sympathetic, the film feels too much like a miniseries cut down to a very long feature length.

Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow

Sep 7, 2023 | ,

The freewheeling independence of the open road is given a Gen-Z spin in the Ross Brothers’ kinetic and affecting hybrid documentary, Gasoline Rainbow.

Malqueridas

Malqueridas

Sep 7, 2023 | ,

Women in Chilean prisons record motherhood and the raw pain of separation in Tana Gilbert’s empathetic and impressionistic, mobile-shot doc of solidarity.

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