Venice Film Festival 2022 - The Film Verdict

Victim

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 25, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024 |

Competing forms of victimhood expose a rotten racist society in Slovak director Michal Blaško’s prize-winning Oscars submission ‘Victim’.

Blonde

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

Pre-release hype will be the biggest friend to this mess of a pseudo-biopic that reduces Marilyn Monroe to a disturbed child-woman with Daddy issues, never offering a glimpse of the screen magic notwithstanding Ana de Armas’ impressive recreation.

Saint Omer

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 7, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Spotlight, VENICE 2022 |

Alice Diop’s superb fiction debut is a marvel of control and depth, using the trial of a Senegalese woman guilty of killing her infant to honestly explore the complexities of motherhood while foregrounding it all within France’s racist currents.

The Eternal Daughter

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

Joanna Hogg’s latest exploration of mother-daughter relations sees Tilda Swinton playing both roles in an etiolated ghost story whose artificiality kills its characters despite Swinton’s admirable performances.

Immensity

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 4, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

Penélope Cruz is a joy as a 1970s mother whose free spirit is frozen by her husband’s stereotyped insensitivity, yet other elements of Emanuele Crialese’s film, which is equally focused on the daughter’s certainty she was born the wrong gender, are less transcendent.

Tag: Venice Film Festival 2022

Victim

Blonde

Saint Omer

The Eternal Daughter

Immensity